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Auction: 17044 - The Yen Boon Swee Large Gold Medal Collection of Malayan Airmails
Lot: 228

Malayan Airmails
The Wartime Period
Imperial Airways Wartime Service to UK
With the outbreak of war in September 1939, the Empire All-Up scheme ceased and the rates from Malaya rose from 8c. to 55c.
1941 (20 Aug.) envelope (235x100mm.) from Jesselton to England, marked "4½oz", franked at $4.95 plus 2c. War Tax paying nine times the 55c. rate, showing light triangular "passed for transmission/north borneo"; the envelope with some creases

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SG$420