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Auction: 17044 - The Yen Boon Swee Large Gold Medal Collection of Malayan Airmails
Lot: 102

Malayan Airmails
Air Union
Imperial Airways Marseilles - London Service
1929 (9 May) real photographic postcard (Singapore floating dock) from Singapore to England and carried by Imperial Airways from Marseilles to London, franked at 16c. and cancelled by "seletar/singapore" double-ring d.s. and showing "by air mail" etiquette label at upper left. The only airmail postcard recorded. Photo

Note: Little use was made of this weekly service, and after the opening of the Karachi - London route in August 1929, only a few letters were received for despatch via Marseilles.

This airmail rate lasted from 6 October 1928 to 22 October 1929.

Sold for
SG$2,700