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Auction: 5006 - British Empire
Lot: 16

BURMA 1931 (3 Feb.) envelope "by runner to Fort Hertz" to London bearing 2a. cancelled with a fine strike of the Fort Hertz c.d.s.; an unusual cover from a remote outpost Estimate £ 60-80 Note: Fort Hertz was 200 miles north of the railway terminus at Myitkyina, from which stores went by pack mule one a year until the motor road was built in 1941 provenance: Lt. Gen. Gwatkin, 1969

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