QV-QEII accumulation of approx 500 covers (mainly pre-QEII) bearing an assortment of frankings & pmks incl. envelopes, postcards, air letters, mainly addressed to Southern India. Condition very mixed throughout. (Image)

1866 envelope from Madras to Cheltenham, Glos, franked 8p mauve, 2a brown orange & 4a green, cancelled by Madras India Paid double ring d/stamps, reverse bears Cheltenham receiving d/stamp. Fine & attractive cover. (1) (Image)

1869 British India Steam Navigation Co. envelope from Madras to Cheltenham, franked 8p + 2a brown orange strip of four, tied by superb Madras double ring d/stamps, reverse Bombay transit & Cheltenham receiver. 1870 envelope from Bombay to Cheltenham, franked India Paid d/stamp, reverse Cheltenham receiver. (Image)

India-Russia (Uzbekistan) 1894-1912 covers (23) with most from Peshawar to Bukhara, many sent registered with differing rates of 2½a, 3a, 4½a, 5a, 7a & 9½a three colour franking, with variety of transits incl. 'Sea Post Office' or Odessa transits, also two covers addressed from Shanghai to India with 1911 & 1912 covers sent at single rate and registered rate with Hong Kong adhesives & India 1927 Flight cover etc. Some peripheral staining as usual with the Bukhara correspondence. (Image)

India-Russia (Uzbekistan) 1897-98 registered covers (3) all from Peshawar to Bukhara, franked 4½ anna rates, each disinfected in transit in Odessa due to outbreaks of Typhoid in the UK & plague in Bombay, each cover struck on front by fine OBESSARENKO cachet in violet, scarce trio. (Image)

1902-11 25r brownish orange & blue fresh example, centred to right with neat Calcutta telegraphic cancellation. SG.147. (Image)

1920 Jan 23rd RAF Experimental first flight Karachi - Bombay (RAF Stationery envelope) onto Dorey Tracey Devon. (Image)

1925 Jan 23rd RAF Demonstration flight Calcutta - Risalpur with large circular cachet & posted onto Nowshera 2.2.25 & signed Flt. Lt Graham (64 flown), scarce. (Image)

1927 Feb 16th Stack & Leete flight cover Karachi - Lahore with cachet (60 flown) (Image)

1928 March 26th First Mail Karachi - London by Imperial AW, Basra - Cairo and Marseilles - London services,m special cover (60 flown) (Image)

1929-50's airmails & first flights range written up on leaves incl. 1929 Eastern & Imperial first airmails Calcutta - London, Calcutta - Karachi, Delhi - Karachi, Delhi - London, 1933 National Airways Calcutta - Dacca & return flight 1934 first flight Madras - Calcutta, 1934 Calcutta - Egypt, UK to India first airmails Derby to Sadiggarth Palace, Bahawalpur State, first flights 1934 Lahore - Karachi, Karachi - Lahore etc. (Image)

1930 Nov 22nd RAF Survey flight Allahabad - Delhi bears oval Cheshire Regt. cachet, posted on arrival, (48 flown) (Image)

1931 April 1st Hadley & Pratt flight Calcutta - Akyab with cachets, signed John. E Pratt (35 flown), scarce. (Image)

REVENUES black page stock book crammed full of 19thC revenue stamps, many 100's with duplication throughout. (Image)