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Auction: 14026 - Stamps and Covers of South East Asia including the Peter Cockburn Award Winning Collection of Straits Settlements and Malayan States Revenue Stamps
Lot: 559

Revenue
Postage and Revenue Adhesive Stamps used for Revenue
Singapore
1931 (20 May) full set of three Bills of Exchange drawn at three months for £73.1.7 in exchange for 100 cases of pineapples. The first exchange which was transacted is stamped by three revenue authorities, Singapore with 1931 35c., then in France with a 2f. and again, due to delay, and then finally in UK with perfined Foreign Bill 3d. strip of three, unfortunately some other stamps are missing at upper left; and 1933 (24 Aug.) New Zealand Insurance Company Limited document bearing 1927 25c. tied by red embossed datestamp. An interesting pair of documents

Estimate
SG$150 to SG$180