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Auction: 8031 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 353

India Used Abroad Iraq basra: 1915 (19 Feb.) Imperial Bank of Persia printed envelope to Bombay, bearing 1/2a. green cancelled with a fair strike of the rare re-use of the large "busrah" squared-circle d.s. and with censor handstamp below, arrival c.d.s. on reverse; the envelope with some soiling though an early date of use of this rare cancellation used for less than two months (Feb-April 1914) after the Indian Post Office re-opened Estimate £ 60-80

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