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Auction: 21135 - The 'Ruby' Collection of Burma Postal History
Lot: 425

(x) Burma
Military Mail
The Chin Lushai Expedition
1890 (24 Mar.) 1½a. stationery card ex the Carte correspondence to Ireland, cancelled by the rare "sub. field. p.o. no2/r" c.d.s. and showing Pakokku and Bombay datestamps. The card, headed "Kan", includes "The Expedition is over. I am first to leave going to Mandalay to-morrow" and "we have got everything we wanted without fighting". Also a similar card from the same correspondence 15 days later, cancelled by "mandalay-town/mandalay" c.d.s., the message including "just got back from Chin and probably stay here for duty pro temp". Both creased though a rare pair

provenance:
Gerald Davis, March 1990

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£600 to £800

Starting price
£480