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Auction: 17044 - The Yen Boon Swee Large Gold Medal Collection of Malayan Airmails
Lot: 62

Malayan Airmails
The RAF Survey Flights
1931 Air-Sea Survey Flights
1931 (6 Apr.) envelope carried on the preliminary phase by Flying-boat S.1162 from Brunei to Singapore, marked "By Air", franked at 19c. with framed "air mail/brunei" cachet and showing two strikes of Brunei datestamp alongside with arrival datestamp for 9 April on reverse. Rare, only 10 items of mail were carried. Photo

Note: In the spring of 1931 the RAF, together with the Royal Navy, undertook a survey of coral reefs in the South China Sea north-west of North Borneo. On March 31st the RAF Flying-boat S1162, piloted by Sq.-Ldr. G.E. Livock, left Seletar to make a preliminary survey of the area. When this was completed, S1162 returned to Seletar on April 9th after an overnight stay at Kuching. The only mail was picked up at Brunei. An airmail fee of 15 cents was charged in addition to the surface rate of 4 cents.

Sold for
SG$8,000

Sale 17044 Notices
This is re-estimated at S$2500-3000