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Auction: 14037 - Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area, The Alan Parsons Collection
Lot: 2449

The Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Area
The Postal Agencies
Iraq
Mosul
1919 "On Field Service" envelopes to Ireland (3) showing, on reverse, use of the late Ottoman "moussel" c.d.s., large 35mm. double-ring datestamp and 32mm. double-ring datestamp, 1925 envelope from England to Mosul, marked "Overland Haifa Baghdad", one of the very few known covers travelling east by overland route, and 1930 cover to England by airmail franked at 6a.

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HK$1,400