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Auction: 14037 - Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area, The Alan Parsons Collection
Lot: 2016

The Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area
Early Letters Prior to the Postal Agencies
The Dromedary Post
1847 (27 Jan.) entire letter from Baghdad "p Steamer via Ceylon" to Batavia and written inside as via Beirut, Alexandria and Bombay, disinfected with slits and showing fine "bombay/b.p.p./Paid." handstamp on face; small faults though an unusual item carried by the Dromedary Post which operated over the Syrian Desert from Baghdad to Beirut between 1843 and 1886. Photo

Sold for
HK$11,000