Ref: A4460
- £225.00
1918 cover from India to Basra, then redirected to KOWEIT with an India 1a cancelled KALABAR HILL 1 JAN 18. A censor ‘5’ h/s is on the front, on the back is an OPENED BY CENSOR label with a Base Office D, I.E.F. and Basra cancels of 13 JAN 18. Addressed to Harry St. John Philby, a British explorer, political agent and author. His son Kim Philby was the notorious Soviet spy within British intelligence. (See back with fuller story on Philby.
