Hawker Airmail Stamp (Newfoundland, 1919)

The Hawker stamp is Newfoundland's 3-cent brown Caribou stamp overprinted First Trans-Atlantic Air Post April, 1919. Only 200 were overprinted, issued on April 12, 1919 for Harry Hawker's attempt to fly the Atlantic. The aircraft came down in the ocean, but the mail it carried was salvaged. Each stamp bears postmaster J. A. Robinson's initials on the back.

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