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Auction: 5006 - British Empire
Lot: 431

BURMA Airmails 1939-42 selection of covers to England (18, several censored), including flat rates of 14a. (5, one a double rate) and 1r. (6, one registered and with two marked by air to Hong Kong and by surface from there), three carried by favour to Calcutta and posted there where Burmese stamps were valid for a short period, and one by C.N.A.C. from Maymyo at 1r.10a.; also "On Active Service" envelope from a British officer serving with Chinese forces and with boxed "treat as prepaid/and deliver free/calcutta g.p.o." handstamp in violet; also ten later items Estimate £ 250-300

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