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Auction: 23013 - Stamps and Covers of the World: Featuring Superb Mauritius, the "Claremont" Collection of South West Africa and the Charles Freeland Collection of Virgin Islands
Lot: 1278

(x) India
Airmails
1920 England - Australia Air Race
1920 (25 Jan.) envelope from Baghdad to Dehra Dun, India, bearing British Occupation of Iraq 1918 ½a. on 10pa. and 1a. on 20pa., both tied by "civil posts/aerial/iraq" circular handstamp in violet with the ½a. additionally tied by "baghdad h.o. (iraq)" datestamp and showing arrival datestamp (9.3) on reverse. Rare. B.P.A. Certificate (2021). Photo

Note: This cover was flown frm Baghdad to Karachi by Capt. G.C. Matthews and Sgt. T.D. Kay, contestants in the England to Australia air race won by the Australians Ross and Keith Smith. Cover No. 5 recorded in "Airmails across the Middle East 1818-1930" by Lawrence Kimpton, p.60.

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Sold for
£13,000

Starting price
£4000