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Auction: 24017 - Stamps and Covers of British Asia
Lot: 497

(x) The Lim Sa Bee Gold Medal Collection of Malayan Airmails
The RAF Survey Flights
1936 Flights
1936 (8 Feb.) envelopes (2) from Singapore to Kobe, flown to Shanghai and then taken by boat to Japan, both franked at 12c., one marked "By RAF Flying boats Singapore to Tokio" and signed by Air Commodore Sydney Smith and Sqn.-Ldr K.B. Lloyd", the other showing Tokyo arrival datestamp (6.3) and framed "undelivered for reasons stated/return to sender" in violet

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Sold for
£420

Starting price
£210