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Auction: 17044 - The Yen Boon Swee Large Gold Medal Collection of Malayan Airmails
Lot: 171

Malayan Airmails
KLM
1927 (25 June) envelope from Calcutta to Batavia, franked at 2a., showing "dutch flight,1927, to batavia/carried from calcutta." label and with Dutch Indies Postage Due 15c. affixed and cancelled on arrival (1.7). 31 covers carried on this leg. Photo

Note:: Chartered from KLM and piloted by Messers. Scholte and Geysendoeffer, the Dutch aeroplane, D-NADP, on a flight from Amsterdam to Batavia, brought American millionaire Mr. Van Lear Black, the first aerial passenger to Singapore on 29 June