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Auction: 17044 - The Yen Boon Swee Large Gold Medal Collection of Malayan Airmails
Lot: 233

Malayan Airmails
The Wartime Period
BOAC, PAA and KLM Services to UK
Mail was flown by BOAC via Bangkok to Hong Kong, then by air all the way to the UK via PAA's Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic Clipper Services to Lisbon, and then KLM (under license to BOAC) to Bristol.
1940 (2 Aug.) envelope (folded) from Singapore to Manchester, marked "By Transpacific & Transatlantic Air Services", franked at $2.40 and showing brown sealing tape at left tied by unframed "passed by/censor 61/singapore" in violet. Photo

Sold for
SG$300