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Auction: 26014 - Stamps and Covers of Asia
Lot: 5046

(x) Burma
Airmails
Experimental and Survey Flights
1928 (20 Sept.) Amsterdam-Batavia Experimental flights by new Fokker aircraft, envelope carried from Calcutta to Rangoon bearing 1a., with "indo burma" illustrated cachet in green, also the original unadopted sketch in red designed by Stephen Smith from which the special cachet was made, along with three photographs of the sketch and a proof in green of the adopted cachet signed by the pilot, and a strike in purple of the "postvlucht ned indie-nederland/medan" cachet

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Estimate
£300 to £400

Starting price
£150