AUSTRALIA 1931 Australia-England XMAS Flight Cover with Kingsford Smith Photo

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1931, Nov. 15. Chatswood - London, England. Large specially produced cover "Christmas Greetings From Australia' appropriately cacheted. Cover has been roughly torn open at top, several small pieces missing on reverse. Inside the cover was a cut out from the 16 Dec. Evening News showing Kingsford Smith unloading the mail sacks from his plane. Caption reads: "Air Commodore Kingsford Smith arrived at Croydon to-day with 50,000 letters from Australia for people all over Britain. He picked up the mail in Malay from an air liner which had crashed."