Auction: 19033 - Stamps and Covers of South East Asia
Lot: 562
Labuan
Covers and Cancellations
1897 (22 Feb.) OHMS envelope, complete with Avis De Reception form, registered to London and redirected to Ohio, USA, showing Labuan c.d.s. and oval-framed "R" in deep bluish ink,
Note: The cover was sent by the Postmaster of Labuan, Walter W. Boyd, enclosing the form and requesting acknowledgement of receipt of a letter to the Very Rev. Prefect Apostolic of Labuan and founder of the Mill Hill Mission there and in North Borneo.
Patrick Cassels, June 2004
Sold for
SG$1,400