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Auction: 14037 - Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area, The Alan Parsons Collection
Lot: 2394

The Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area
The Postal Agencies
Iraq
Baghdad
British Occupation of Baghdad
1917 (16 Oct.) envelope to England, bearing Pictorial 2a. on 1pi. bright blue block of four, with three neat "bridge" type datestamps, "passed/d/censor" handstamp in red at foot, F.P.O. 13 (Samarra) c.d.s. (18.10) on reverse; fine. A very rare franking with exceptionally few blocks of these stamps recorded, and used even rarer. S.G. 6. Photo

Sold for
HK$95,000