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Auction: 17044 - The Yen Boon Swee Large Gold Medal Collection of Malayan Airmails
Lot: 162

Malayan Airmails
Imperial Airways
First "All-Up" Malaya - UK Service
The postage rates were fixed at 8c. per ½oz. for letters and 4c. for postcards. No airmail label was necessary.
1938 (25 Feb.) envelope from Kota Bharu (Kelantan) to England, franked at 12c. (8c. "all-up" and 4c .carriage by Wearne Bros on the Malaya internal service to Singapore); and 1938 (1 Mar.) envelope from Singapore to Nyasaland connecting at Cairo for the Imperial Airways flight via Beira to Blantyre, franked at 8c. and showing arrival datestamp (18.3) on reverse; also 1938 (3 Aug.) envelope (lower left corner clipped) from Singapore to Melbourne and carried on the first "all-up" Malaya - Australia service by Qantas

Sold for
SG$1,500