Lot 221
GB 1940-1 airmail rate covers








The Academic Collection | Part 5 | S25008
Auction: 21 May 2025 at 10:30 BST
£144
Description
Postal History. 1940-1 group of covers with 2/6d brown or 5/- ‘square’ high values. 4/9d registered to Australia, by air to New York, thence by sea; two 5/- ‘Two Oceans’ rates to Ceylon (peripheral staining) and India; two 4/6d ‘Two Oceans’ rates to NZ and Australia. Also a 1/3d airmail envelope to Calcutta with Postage Due marking, the airmail label with boxed KARACHI CANCELLED 10 MAY 40 and marked DESPATCHED BY SEA ROUTE TO AVOID DETENTION. Ex Ian Warn








