airmail flight cover: Birth of naval aviation commemorative

Date:01/18/1984
Medium:Paper, ink
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Harris
Accession Number:2015.056.015
Dimensions:5 x 7 1/2 inches (12.7 x 19.1 cm)
Collection:Aviation Archive
Category:Philately
Subcategory:Airmail Flight Cover
aircraft: Curtiss Model D
company: Curtiss
Description

Airmail flight cover, part of International Tributes to the History of Flight series by the Postal Commemorative Society; white envelope with full color illustration cachet and inset stamp commemorating birth of naval aviation on January 18, 1911, in San Francisco, California, U.S.A., by Eugene Ely with Curtiss biplane; cancellation stamp dated January 1985 in San Francisco; includes information on reverse.

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