Lot 51068 – 1922-25, Collection of Irish Acceptance for RAF “Desert Airmail Service” London-Cairo-Baghdad, 24 covers, frot and a RAF Handbook

Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1922-25, Collection of Irish Acceptance for RAF "Desert Airmail Service" London-Cairo-Baghdad, 24 covers, frot and a RAF Handbook
Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1922-25, Collection of Irish Acceptance for RAF "Desert Airmail Service" London-Cairo-Baghdad, 24 covers, frot and a RAF Handbook
Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1922-25, Collection of Irish Acceptance for RAF "Desert Airmail Service" London-Cairo-Baghdad, 24 covers, frot and a RAF Handbook
Stamp of Ireland » Airmails 1922-25, Collection of Irish Acceptance for RAF "Desert Airmail Service" London-Cairo-Baghdad, 24 covers, frot and a RAF Handbook

Lot 51068 – 1922-25, Collection of Irish Acceptance for RAF “Desert Airmail Service” London-Cairo-Baghdad, 24 covers, frot and a RAF Handbook

Ireland » Airmails
Price realised
1’300 GBP
Estimate
1’000 – 1’500 GBP
Auction date
ven. 7 juin 2019 at 19:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description
1922-25, Collection of Irish Acceptance for RAF “Desert Airmail Service” London-Cairo-Baghdad, 24 covers, a front and “Pilot’s Handbook of the Cairo Baghdad Route”, HB 1923, with maps and “Special regulations for handling airmails”, with a variety of Irish frankings sent on the Cairo-Baghdad route, a few covers showing Harrison Coil “long 1 in 1922” varieties, five of the covers “London-Cairo” which meant London-Paris then onwards by surface mail, a couple of faulty covers, attractive group

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