Auction: 17044 - The Yen Boon Swee Large Gold Medal Collection of Malayan Airmails
Lot: 252
Malayan Airmails
The Wartime Period
PAA and KLM Services to UK
The mail went from Singapore by Clipper all the way to the UK via New York and Lisbon, the Lisbon to Bristol leg being by KLM under contract to BOAC
1941 (3 July) envelope from Singapore to Venezuela, marked "Pacific Clipper, air throughout", franked at $2 and showing brown sealing tape and violet Censor cachet at left with arrival datestamp (29.7) on reverse. A rare destination. Photo
Sold for
SG$1,200