Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5

Eastbound mail: 8 NO 1941 cv on Windsor Hotel stationary ex HAIFA to "Nairn Transport Co. Ltd" (operators of "Baghdad overland" service) DAMASCUS, franked 15m using sgl Ba108 per period "overland" service though cv not marked such (period non-UK surface rate was 20m) & tied by strike of local pmk; cv opened/resealed by a Haifa censor using white PC22 label; b/s 17 III 42 BEYROUTH transit, where Free French censor opened/resealed with creme label & marked the cv with h/s & officer's endorsement + 19 III 1942 DAMAS arr.; cut open at right. Nicely documented cv per Nairn's northern route. Per Collins et. al. "all mail going eastwards is scarce to very rare"; 13 cvs ex Palestine recorded.