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Auction: 17044 - The Yen Boon Swee Large Gold Medal Collection of Malayan Airmails
Lot: 260

Malayan Airmails
The Wartime Period
BOAC and QANTAS via "Reserve" Route and "Shuttle" Services
1942 (17 Jan.) Air Mail Letter Card to Lahore, bearing Straits Settlements 4c. (3) clearly tied by "f.p.o./no 32-b" (Kluang, Johore), showing two different Censor cachets with arrival datestamp on reverse. Photo

Note: This cover was flown by Qantas from Singapore by shuttle service to Batavia, then via Port Blair and Rangoon to Lahore. The 12c. AMLC was introduced in December 1941 for Indian and Australian forces serving in Malaya.

Sold for
SG$900