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Auction: 17044 - The Yen Boon Swee Large Gold Medal Collection of Malayan Airmails
Lot: 16

Malayan Airmails
Pioneer and Early Flights
1929 Baron Von Koenig Calcutta - Singapore - Tokyo Flight
Competing for President Hindenburg's Cup "for the most sporting amateur flight made by a German subject", Baron von Koenig began his Far East flight in Berlin in August 1928, left Calcutta in "Kamerad", a Klemm-Daimler Baby plane for Akyab, Rangoon, Bangkok and arrived in Singapore on 26 March
1929 (15 Jan.) postcard from Calcutta to Singapore, bearing India ½a. and with printed and handstamped flight details, and "Delayed" cachet in black. Rare, twenty-five cards carried to Singapore of which only seventeen stated to exist. Photo

Sold for
SG$800