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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: 1286

(x) India
Airmails
1930 Sind Flood RAF Emergency Airmail Service
1930 (28 Aug.) 1a. stationery envelope from Jacobabad to Reti (Sukkur) and back to Jacobabad, showing fine straight-line "emergency air mail" h.s. in violet and, on reverse, Sukkur (30.8) and Jacobabad (31.8) datestamps, signed by Flt Walter Akerman RAF and Stephen Smith, the top left of face panel with pencil notation by Stephen Smith. Photo

Note: Severe flooding between Sultankot and Shikarpur resulted in eight post offices being closed between 27 July and 10 August 1930 and disruption for a further month. The floods caused numerous breaches of the North West Railway between Sukkur and Quetta, one breach being three miles long.

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Sold for
£1,900

Starting price
£650