Los 3303

1920, From BANGAR ABAS town to Bombay, franked with 2 annas 6 pies ultramarine King George V stamp, indistinct origin cancel dated 29 JUL 20, arrival BOMBAY cancel, Arabic manuscript note at left in sender's hand, slightly worn edges and vertical fold not affecting stamp, early commercial usage from BANGAR ABAS, identified as a variant spelling of BANDAR ABBAS, strategically located port city on the Persian Gulf within the territory of Persia (Iran), during the era of British political and commercial presence along the southern Persian coastline, posted through the British postal agency operating in Bandar Abbas under imperial arrangements, where Indian stamps and postal rates were in use for British-run overseas mail, marking this as part of the wider network of British India Post Offices in the Persian Gulf, distinct from military occupations such as the 1915 Bushire Overprints, the 2 annas 6 pies ultramarine King George V definitive stamp, issued under British India in 1911, reflects imperial authority, and its usage here testifies to the functioning of Indian postal services abroad under British control, the faint strike dated 29 JUL 20 coincides with a transitional postwar period when British influence in Persia remained strong despite regional shifts in sovereignty and internal Persian resistance to foreign control, the legible BOMBAY receiving cancel confirms the effective handling of foreign-origin mail via the imperial postal network, Arabic notation in the sender’s hand adds ethnographic dimension, indicating a local Persian-origin sender, a detail of interest to scholars of Gulf postal history and imperial communication systems, this type of cover, emerging from British-run postal agencies in non-colonial but politically influenced regions such as Persia, is increasingly sought after for its documentation of British-Indo-Persian mail routes and their integration into global imperial structures, linked to King George V, monarch and emperor during the apex of British overseas administration, whose image on postage symbolised dominion across the subcontinent and its extraterritorial spheres of operation, ex Kugel, uncommon example of Indo-British postal agency use in Persian territory, XF! Estimate 1.200€.