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Auction: 14037 - Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area, The Alan Parsons Collection
Lot: 2401

The Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area
The Postal Agencies
Iraq
Baghdad
Airmails
1918-19 First England-India Flight
1919 (9 Jan.) unstamped envelope (with contents) "By air" to Dehra Doon showing fine "postal service/m.e.f./aerial post-baghdad-delhi/per/handley-page aeroplane" cachet in magenta with F.P.O. 55 c.d.s. applied at left, the reverse with circular-framed "carried by aerial mail/baghdad-delhi/jany. 1919" cachet in violet and two different Delhi c.d.s. (20.1 and 21.1); the enclosed letter includes "I am escorting the old Handley Page 40 miles down river when she arrives. She is due at 3a.m. today. The weather is bad however, she might be delayed. Photo

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HK$6,500