There was a good response to an attractive offering of Gambia Cameo issues from the ‘King’s Pawn’ Collection, although it was noticeable that there was far greater enthusiasm for the unusual offering of full sheets of the 1886-93 issue than the classic imperfs. More surprising was a cover originally addressed from France to Singapore and recovered from the wreckage of the Nieuport-Delageaircraft that crashedinto a sand dune at Bir-El-Amar, in the Gulf of Sirte on December 14 which climbed to an unexpected price of £2,220. The star item from the exceptional Reg Patchett collection of Crash and Interrupted Mail has been described as “one of the finest examples recovered”from the famous crash of the Hindenburg airship at Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937 and fully merited its £8,400 result.
