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Auction: 14037 - Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area, The Alan Parsons Collection
Lot: 2435

The Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area
The Postal Agencies
Iraq
Basra
Attempted Suppression of the Indian Post Office
1899 (6 Oct.) envelope (opened-out) registered to Constantinople bearing, on reverse, India ½a. (3) 1a. and 2½a. cancelled by small "busrah/reg" c.d.s. and 1892 Turkish 20pa. black (8) Postage Due stamps cancelled by blue crayon crosses, also showing Sea Post Office (21.1) and arrival British Post Office (6.11) c.d.s., registration cachet and oval-framed "T" handstamp on face. Rare. Photo

Sold for
HK$11,000