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1911 FIRST OFFICIAL U.K. AERIAL POST/LONDON ENVELOPE IN PURPLE-BROWN TO SWANSEA. Good used example of the London envelope in purple-brown, slight creasing, addressed to Swansea with KGV 1d Downey head cancelled good strike FIRST UNITED KINGDOM/AERIAL POST LONDON date stamp SP 14 1911 with the scarcer die 5. On reverse SWANSEA date stamp SP 20 11. Writer states on insert "I hope you will like this small memento...Jack sent me an Aerial Post Card last Sunday and I only received it today not very promising if there should be a railway strike is it?". Apparently ex. T. F. Field collection. (Ref 114466).