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Auction: 14037 - Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area, The Alan Parsons Collection
Lot: 2156

The Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area
The Postal Agencies
Arabia
Kuwait
Censored Mail
1941 (25 May) envelope to Karachi and redirected locally, bearing 1939 ½a. pair and 2a. both cancelled by "supdt. of post offices,/persian gulf." rubber handstamp in blue, showing censor cachet, red on buff label at left and, on reverse, four different transit/arrival datestamps; a little soiled though very rare with only a handful of covers recorded during the three week period this provisional handstamp was in use. Photo

Sold for
HK$180,000