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Auction: 17044 - The Yen Boon Swee Large Gold Medal Collection of Malayan Airmails
Lot: 225

Malayan Airmails
The Wartime Period
Imperial Airways (BOAC) Wartime Service to USA
1939 (10 Oct.) envelope from Kuala Lumpur to New York, marked "By Air to London & in USA", franked at 90c. (Selangor 40c. and 50c., both with "h b &co" perfin) and showing unframed "passed/for transmission" in violet; 1939 (25 Nov.) envelope from Singapore to New Jersey, franked at 90c. and showing unframed "passed/for/transmission" in black; 1940 (18 Apr.) envelope from Singapore to New York, marked "By Air to London only" and showing triangular "passed for transmission/49/singapore" in violet; and 1940 (4 July) envelope registered from Singapore to Massachusetts, franked at 75c., showing triangular "passed for transmission/15/singapore" in black, and blue-green Hong Kong censor cachet

Sold for
SG$320