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PE457T1 CONCORDE F-BVFA flight cover "25 YEARS PARIS - NY 1977-2002" St Exupery19 € €
- (Postage TYPE 1) Mail posted from the European Parliament, Strasbourg (France) on 21 Nov. 2002 with transit through Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) to be boarded by Concorde with arrival in New York (JFK). - Postage (TYPE 1) France 3.00F/0.46€ “CENTENNIAL Antoine de SAINT-EXUPERY 1900-1944” - Illustrated postmark Strasbourg "Session of the European Parliament" 21.11.2002 + stamp "mail posted from the annex office, European Parliament Strasbourg" - Perforated label (cinderella) "35 years of the presentation to President DE GAULLE of the CONCORDE 001 prototype, 1967-2002" - FLIGHT AUTHENTICATION STAMP (black) "Transported on board the Concorde flight - 25th anniversary 22.11.2002" - Transit postal stamp "Paris Concorde special flight 22.11.2002" and arrival stamp "New York JFK 22 Nov. 2002" on the back. Collector's edition - Total edition (Types 1, 2, 3) 605 numbered copies - RARE Several aerophilatelic covers made the same journey aboard Concorde, 25 years apart, in commemoration of these first historic flights of November 22, 1977. Designed by Historiaphil© (Philately Kiosk of the European Parliament, Strasbourg, France) Special aerophilatelic envelopes have been posted since the Strasbourg plenary session of the European Parliament. They were produced as a continuation of the collection of philatelic envelopes testifying since 1949 to the history of Europe and its institutions. Their edition is limited and numbered. |
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