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Auction: 22024 - The Samraat Collection of King George VI Indian States
Lot: 48

(x) Feudatory States
Bhopal
1936-49 Overprinted 'service' (13½mm)
1947 (23 Sept.) envelope registered to New York, bearing "bhopal agency" handstamp and with manuscript mark "No. 144 / 23.9.47" bearing 1936-49 ½a., 1940 ¼a. and 1a. (all uncancelled) alongside India 1926-33 3a. (2), 1946 3p. on 1a.3p. pair, cancelled by 'Bhopal Agency' c.d.s., New York transit and c.d.s. on reverse. Fine and unusual.

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£200