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Auction: 24017 - Stamps and Covers of British Asia
Lot: 490

(x) The Lim Sa Bee Gold Medal Collection of Malayan Airmails
Royal Air Force Flights
Group Captain Cave-Brown, in command of four Supermarine "Southampton" flying boats, made a service flight from Plymouth to India and Singapore arriving on 27 February. The machines stayed until May before proceeding to Java and Australia; returned to Singapore on 15 September and stationed there permanently.
1930 Inspection Flight Singapore - India
1930 (14 Nov.) picture postcard flown from Singapore to Karachi, franked at 2c., showing "By R.A.F./Hanaidi & Wapitii Aeroplanes/Straits Settlements/to" h.s. in blue-green and "Karachi" h.s. in purple below and New Delhi c.d.s. (23.11). Signed by Air Marshall Geoffrey Salmond (only three were signed). 13 items carried on this leg. Photo

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Sold for
£700

Starting price
£650