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Auction: 26025 - Tibet - The 'Bramley' Collection, Part II
Lot: 3006

Tibet
Dalai Lama Mail
Thirteenth Dalai Lama
1922 (25 June) native cover to Major F.M. Bailey, closed with a reddened wax floral seal (some edge fragments missing); the address reads, "This urgent cover should be delivered to Major F.M. Bailey, officer in Sikkim, wherever he will be met in Bhutan. Up to Nangartse it should go by post and thence by special mounted courier. If Major Bailey is met on the way, the letter should be delivered, and if not, deliver at Do-Jong where it should go by mounted courier until Major Bailey is met in Bhutan. Despatched from the Potala Palace"; bearing 1/3 tr. bright blue tied by an indistinct Lhasa postmark with transit alongside; some soiling. Photo

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Estimate
£300 to £500

Starting price
£150