Newfoundland #C4 1927 60c black with red De Pinedo Flight airmail overprint on cover, well centered stamp showing the overprint shifted to left (D of DE is mostly missing) tied by machine cancel on Government House cover mailed by Stuart Goodfellow from St. John’s MY 20 1927 with two strikes of Trepassey MY 21 1927 split ring, Rome JU 22 backstamp, to England with JU 25 arrival cancel nicely tying the stamp at bottom. The cover was forwarded back to Government House in St. John’s. Very fine and accompanied by 2007 Greene Foundation and 1980 Enzo Dina certificates and with the latter’s signature to the left of the stamp.
A rare cover as only 300 overprinted stamps were prepared with several examples kept in mint condition and several used examples having been removed from covers. The Marchese Francesco de Pinedo reached Trepassey, Newfoundland, on May 20, 1927 in the course of his round the world flight aboard the Santa Maria II. On May 23 he took off on his attempt to fly to Rome via the Azores. Unitrade CV$25,000.