Lot 3713




Lot 3713
USA n°375 OBL grand CAD “US navy 11076 BR” (8 mai 1950) sur lettre avec grand cachet bleu Missions PEV expédition Arctique – Antarctique (courrier posté à la base américaine de Gronnedal près d’Ivigtut lors de l’escale forcée du navire Hillevaag qui transportait l’expédition). Pierre Couesnon et Antoine Gessain écrivent dans leur ouvrage “Histoire postale des expéditions françaises au Groenland”, tome 2 de 1940 à nos jours : “Ces plis sont certainement les plus rares des EPF au Groenland, en raison de leur acheminement”. RRR et TBUSA 5c Blue tied by large US navy 11076 BR” MAY 8 1950 cds on enveloppe bearing blue handstamp MISSIONS PAUL EMILE VICTOR EXPEDITION / ARCTIC / ANTARCTIQUE, cover posted onboard the Gronnedal near Ivigtut during the forced stopover of the HILLEVAAG ship which carried the members of the expedition, Pierre Couesnon and Antoine Gessain wirtes in their book “Histoire postale des expéditions françaises au Groenland”, volume 2 that these covers are certainly the rarest of all due to their routing, very fine and very rare
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