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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: 1087

Burma
Port Blair
1882-1933 envelopes (4, one registered) stationery envelopes (3, one very discoloured) and loose stamps/pieces (6) including 1882 (29 Apr.) envelope to London, bearing ½a. and 4a. cancelled by diamond of bars (Type K4) and showing "port blair" c.d.s. (Type D4; latest recorded date) on reverse; 1889 (4 Sept.) ½a. stationery envelope to India and 1893 (15 June) 2½a. stationery envelope to USA., both cancelled by "port blair" c.d.s. (Type D7); 1898 (Nov.) envelope to London bearing 2½a. tied by "port blair" segmented c.d.s. (Type KD6); 1906 (3 Mar.) ¼a. stationery card to England cancelled by "port blair" c.d.s. (Type D9); and 1933 (5 Oct.) envelope to London bearing 8a. and showing "telephone makes/life easier" slogan (Type HS2; the only recorded example). Condition a little mixed

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SG$950