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Auction: 22130 - The Philatelic Collector's Series - Featuring the “M” Collection of India, Part 2 - e-Auction - e-Auction
Lot: 69

(x) Batum
1919 uprated 3k. postal stationery card of Russia, bearing 1919 (Apr.) 10k, 50k, 1r, 3r, and 1919 (Nov.) 1r pale blue overprinted "british/occupation" (Type III), postmarked with "Batum 6.8.19" c.d.s., to "Major Kenneth Mason, Survey of India, Dehra Dun, U.P.", fine. B.P.A. Certificate (1998). S.G. 2, 3, 4, 5, 14.

Note: Major Kenneth Mason was a British soldier and geographer, the first professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, and was awarded the 1927 Royal Geographic Society Founder's Medal for his work surveying the Himalayas.

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Estimate
£80 to £120

Starting price
£55