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Auction: 24017 - Stamps and Covers of British Asia
Lot: 471

(x) The Lim Sa Bee Gold Medal Collection of Malayan Airmails
Pioneer and Early Flights
1911 First U.K. Aerial Post
1911 (9 Sept.) special red-brown card addressed to Perak, bearing G.B. ½d. (2) tied by "first united kingdom/aerial post/london/3" datestamp, flown from London to Windsor and then taken by mail boat to Singapore and showing, on reverse, Kuala Kubau (5.10), Kuala Lumpur (6.10) and Port Dickson (7.10) datestamps; card with small tear at right below adhesives. Rare, only three cards recorded to Malaya. Photo

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Sold for
£800

Starting price
£480