Auction: 17044 - The Yen Boon Swee Large Gold Medal Collection of Malayan Airmails
Lot: 222
Malayan Airmails
The Wartime Period
Imperial Airways (BOAC) & PAA Clipper Services to USA
1941 (5 Mar.) envelope from Singapore to Delaware, marked "Trans-Pacific Air Mail via Hong Kong" and franked at $1.40; and 1941 (21 June) envelope from Penang to New York, marked "Pan American Airmail", franked at $1.40, showing brown sealing tape at left tied by Censor handstamp
Note: The first cover went by sea to Manila or Hong Kong by Clipper until 10 May 1941, after which date by air all the way from Singapore.
Sold for
SG$130