Los 3309

1903, from Gangtok to Edinburgh, franked with strip of (4) Queen Victoria 1/2 anna green, cancelled TEMPORARY P.O. D 7 JU 03, backstamped EDINBURGH NEWCASTLE SORTING TENDER JU 29 03, addressed to Col. F. Bailey R.E., cover bears crest of the 32nd Punjab Pioneers on reverse, mailed during the early phase of the British diplomatic and military mission to Tibet under Col. Younghusband, sent via the rarely used temporary post office operated by the British Frontier Commission at Gangtok in Sikkim, which served only a few months in 1903 to support the advance party negotiating Tibetan boundary issues, rare and desirable historical context at the onset of the British-Tibetan conflict, ex Kugel, XF! Estimate 800€.