Lot 06217

28.1.1932. Mpika – Athens. First Flight by Imperial Airways. “Springbok” air cover with depart. canc. “MPIKA / NORTHERN RHODESIA / 28 JAN. 32”, arr. “ΑΘΗΝΑΙ – ΑΦΙΞΙΣ ΑΕΡΟΠΟΡΙΚΩΣ / 13.ΙΙ.32”, Air Arrival cachet in black, plus Greek commemorative cachet in violet. Bears the OFFICIAL commemorative cachet “IMPERIAL AIRWAYS / FIRST FLIGHT / MPIKA TO LONDON”. ONLY 28 FLOWN and, from these, ONLY 2 with this cachet – Hellas: FF-221Ja.