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1920 (June 30) Melbourne-Traralgon #46 intermediate cover to Morwell carried by Capt EW Leggatt of Aviation Ltd in an Armstrong Whitworth on the 'Herald and Weekly Times' experimental airmail franked with KGV 1½d brown tied 'MORWELL/JU30/20/VICTORIA-M8' duplex cancel on arrival and yellow & purple 'By Herald Aerial Delivery' vignette affixed on back tied 'Herald' office time-clock receiving datestamp, fine condition with just a couple of trivial marks, Cat $4,500. [the plane did not land at Morwell, dropping the mails overboard by parachute; of the 84 covers for Morwell only three are known to date]