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Auction: 17044 - The Yen Boon Swee Large Gold Medal Collection of Malayan Airmails
Lot: 254

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 (14 Oct.) envelope from Sungei Patani (Kedah) to Oxford, marked "Wearnes Air Service & Clipper throughout", franked at $2.10 and cancelled by Indian FPO No. 36 and showing violet Censor cachet; some stamps damaged due to being affixed over edge of envelope. Scarce. Photo

Note: This envelope was carried on the Malayan internal service by Wearne Bros. from Kedah to Singapore. The internal air fee was 10c.

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SG$2,000