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Auction: 14037 - Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area, The Alan Parsons Collection
Lot: 2212

The Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area
The Postal Agencies
Arabia
Muscat
Later Datestamps
1927 and 1928 Capt. Smye airmail envelopes registered to England, the first (12 July) marked "basra-cairo urgent" and bearing eight values totalling 13a. neatly cancelled by double-ring datestamp and, on reverse, plain registration label handstamped "muscat/dt. arabia" (noted as previously unrecorded by Donaldson) tied by Basra c.d.s. (24.7), the second (27 Nov.) bearing 1a. and 4a. with indistinct double-ring datestamps and with handstamped registration label at foot

Sold for
HK$1,700