1920, From BANGAR ABAS town to Bombay, franked with 2 annas 6 pies
ultramarine King George V stamp, indistinct origin cancel dated 29
JUL
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€.