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Auction: 14037 - Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area, The Alan Parsons Collection
Lot: 2015

The Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area
Early Letters Prior to the Postal Agencies
The Second Expedition to Ras Al Khaima
1842 (14 Nov.) printed Prize Money entire letter from Gunner John Ballentine in Dublin to the East India Company Auditors in London "For the Persian Gulf. Prize Money under the command of Sir Wm. van Care" with details to the various questions raised completed in manuscript including "I am not dead as yet", large h.s. "2" on face, despatch and arrival datestamps on reverse. Believed to be the only recorded written matter pertaining to this expedition,

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