1903, from Bahrain to Bombay, franked on the reverse of the cover
with India 3a brown-orange King Edward VII, tied by BAHRAIN 18 NO.
03, on
1903, from Bahrain to Bombay, franked on the reverse of the cover
with India 3a brown-orange King Edward VII, tied by BAHRAIN 18 NO.
03, on front boxed registration handstamp R / BAHRAIN, manuscript
red number 148, reverse with BOMBAY arrival cancel 27 NOV 03 and
additional transit of UMARKHADI, registered mail during the Indian
postal administration in Bahrain, clean and attractive usage, on
front part of the letter is missing, early philatelic evidence of
British Indian postal operations in the Persian Gulf, the BAHRAIN
cancellation of 18 NO. 03 corresponds to the period when Bahrain,
under British political protection since the 19th century, relied
on Indian postal services administered from Bombay, this piece is
postmarked during the reign of King Edward VII, whose image appears
on the 3 anna stamp, the addressee and routing through
UMARKHADI—then a lesser-known postal suburb of Bombay—underline the
commercial or administrative significance of such correspondence
within the colonial network, the usage of boxed R / BAHRAIN
registration marking is consistent with known British Indian
practices in the Gulf region, a tangible document of imperial
logistics, rare surviving usage from the Edwardian period preceding
Bahrain’s own postal identity in 1933, the missing front does not
detract significantly from its historical and postal value, ex
Kugel, F-VF! Estimate 600€.
