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Auction: 14037 - Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area, The Alan Parsons Collection
Lot: 2402

The Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area
The Postal Agencies
Iraq
Baghdad
Airmails
1919 Baghdad-Cairo Survey Flights
1919 (24 Feb.) On Active Service, Director of Postal Services unstamped envelope (complete with letter) to Cairo, showing fine "postal service, m.e.f./aerial mail, baghdad-cairo/by, 31st. wing r.a.f., mesopotamia" cachet in magenta with F.P.O. 55 c.d.s. applied at right, the reverse with four different Army or Foreign Post Office c.d.s.; the letter includes "Just a line by Aerial to send greetings from Baghdad". Photo

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HK$6,500