I am a new member of the CCSG and user of the Forum. I have 3 questions relating to recent I acquisitions . The first 2 are concerned with lots from the recent CCSG auction . Can you please refer to the vendors description of these in the October Bulletin. The 3rd. Item was obtained at a local Stamp Fair.
1.) Lot 152. Air Mail From NZ to UK at the 3/6d rate I assume that the letter was examined in London, but what does D.D. A. On the P.C. 90 tape refer to? I can find no reference to this tape in Morenweiser.
2.) Lot 55.) Burma to GB. I assume that the cover was flown from Rangoon to Hong Kong via Bangkok and then by sea to the UK via Panama. Is this Correct? A postage rate of 1R is presumably too low for the trans Pacific and trans Atlantic air routes. I assume that the air mail etiquette was deleted in Hong Kong.
3.) Another air mail cover from Burma to the UK. This time dated 2/3/42 at a rate of 1r 2A. I assume that this went by the Horse Shoe Route since by this tme Hong Kong and Singapore had fallen to the Japanese and Rangoon was to fall only 5 days later. Is this all correct? If so why the rate of 1R 2A?
I would be very grateful for any help. Thanks, Dave Lucas.