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Auction: 19029 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1243

(x) Tibet
1924 Mount Everest Expedition card from Captain J.B.L. Noel, photographer and movie camera operator, to Lt. Col. A.J. Tomlinson, B.S.A. Police Camp, Defence Force, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, bearing India ½a. and 1a. sharing Yatung Tibet Siliguri Base datestamp, and Expedition label in blue cancelled by Rongbuk Glacier Base Camp handstamp with a strike of the very rare "everest expedition/1924/rongbuk glacier/main/base camp/17,000ft" handstamp. Photo

Note: In 1924, Noel formed a private company which paid for the photographic rights of that year's Everest expedition. Noel reached the North Col and used a specially adapted camera to film the ascent of the peak. A note from George Mallory to Noel was the last contact with the lost explorer before his body was discovered in 1999

Tomlinson served in India in 1891-03 and in 1894 joined the Mashonaland Mounted Police in Rhodesia. He attained the rank on Lt. Col. in 1916/17 when he commanded the 1st. Rhodesian Native Regt. in German East Africa. In 1925 he became the Officer Commanding the B.S.A. Police and Defence Force in Southern Rhodesia

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