Lot 20426 – 1915 5ch carmine and brown, 2ch sepia and carmine,

1915 Portrait 5ch carmine and brown, 2ch sepia and carmine, two singles and 3ch green and grey, tied by BOUCHIR / 18.VIII.15 cds, on reverse of clean neat censored cover addressed to Shiraz, bearing green British Military censor tape and local censor tape with Borazjaan boxed negative cachet, very fine and extremely rare usage of the 5ch value, only four covers recorded and a very early usage

Note: Cover illustrated on page 53 of « The Indian Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf »by Alan Parsons