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Auction: 166 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 759

India Rocket Mail collection comprising 30 items, the great majority signed by Stephen Smith, including two 1934 Saugor Island mails with Lighthouse marking, two 1934 Saugor Island items with "Ship to Shore" black vignette and "Shore to Ship" red vignette, 1935 Sikkim Rocket Experiment Nepal with three items (Oryon R.86, My On R.83 and Chumbi R.88), two 1935 Silver Jubilee envelopes, 1935 Sikkim rocketgram card signed by Tashi Namgyal Chogyal, King of Sikkim, three scarce 1935 Sikkim Durbar Rocket mail Experiment, 1935 1935 live-stock and parcel dispatches with rockets 65 & 66, 1935 Dhakuria firing text, 1937 Coronation rocketgram, 1937 Boomerang rocket flight, 1937 Indian Scouts messages by rocket, two 1937 rocket train "Herbert E. Barber" examples of which one carried by the "Eric-Cyn.", 1938 Garia experiment with "Miss Fortune" vignette, 1938 rocket "Dick Turpin", 1938 Alipore text signed by Smith with two items, two rare 1944 Dimapur and Kohima rocketgrams with Stephen Smith manuscript text "A dreamer's humble..." and numbered "42/68" & "65/78"; very fine, desirable and comprehensive group of Indian rocket mail.

Estimate
$4,000 to $5,000