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Auction: 26014 - Stamps and Covers of Asia
Lot: 5021

(x) Burma
Airmails
Pioneer Flights
1929 (22 Dec.) Bangkok to Delhi Goodwill flight, 15s. stationery card carried on Bangkok to Rangoon stage, registered and uprated 35s., cancelled with "goodwill/flight/bangkok-delhi" machine d.s. and showing arrival datestamp (13.1.30). Rare, only twelve known. Photo

Note: Three Boripatras planes set off from Bangkok in December. One crashed at Kao Poland near the Burma border, killing one of the two pilots, Lt. Col. Baijayonto. The mail was returned to Bangkok and forward by surface mail to Rangoon arriving on 13th January 1930.

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Estimate
£400 to £500

Starting price
£320