Ref: 15627
- £295.00
1954 envelope from Coventry with label inscribed "This item was amongst mail/salvaged from B.O.A.C. Comet/Galyy which came down in the/sea north of Stromboli on/8th April 1954" cancelled 'SUDAN AIR MAIL KHARTOUM" c.d.s. '29 IV 54' A further strike on the reverse. On 8th April the Comet G-ALYY left Rome for Cairo. It came down north of Stromboli. Later two bags of mail came to the surface, containing mail for Sudan. One was processed in Khartoum, the other in Rome.
