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Starline / India Overseas Airlines
First Indian Night Mail Flights on 30th January 1949
Starline / India Overseas Airlines
First Indian Night Mail Flights on 30th January 1949
49:13: Cover from Nagpur to Madras on the 30th Jan 1949.
Postmarked NAGPUR AIR / 30-1-49 and delivery mark on verso MADRAS / DELY / 31 JAN 49.
Postmarked NAGPUR AIR / 30-1-49 and delivery mark on verso MADRAS / DELY / 31 JAN 49.
V49-13: Prepaid 1/2a. domestic use postcard additionally franked with 1/2a. postage stamp for airmail surcharge, both tied with NAGPUR AIR / 30-1-49 NIGHT MAIL FIRST FLIGHT cancellation. There is an additional Inland Night Air Mail, Inauguration, January 30, 1949 rectangular handstamp in black. The Postcard also has a blue rectangular BY AIR MAIL PAR AVION label affixed to it, type IND-A-7c. Postcard type Jain # P64, PV# PC71.
49-13: Prepaid 2a 6p inland airmail postal cover tied with NAGPUR 30-1-49 AIR NIGHT MAIL FIRST FLIGH cancellation. There is an additional Inland Night Air Mail, Inauguration, January 30, 1949 rectangular handstamp in black. The cover also has a blue rectangular Inland Air Mail, pre-printed label.