Lot 82
Bahawalpur SG 33-4 cover

The George Rab Collection of Bahawalpur Stamps | S24011
Auction: 26 November 2024 at 10:30 GMT
£144
Description
1949 envelope of the personal stationery of the Prime Minister (Sir John Dring), in green to distinguish it from that of Sir Richard Crofton (which was in blue). Bears on the reverse pairs of the Union 1½a and Multan Campaign 1½a, cancelled by Imperial Post Office Baghdad-ul-Jadid CDSs of 3 OCT by the Prime Minister's Department. SG 33-4
Footnote
This demonstrates that Sir John Dring carried on Sir Richard Crofton's practice of acting as an unofficial State philatelic bureau

