Lot
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Tibet, 1924 Mount Everest Expedition, collection of five post cards, cover and unused labels; post cards all bearing the Everest label, one with very scarce Tibet cachet handstamp and mailed from Yatung, others on the Everest Expedition commemorative post card with label canceled by the red Rongbuk Glacier Base Camp cachet handstamp, two sent from Darjeeling and two from Calcutta sent between August and October of 1924, also a rare 1933 Huston-Mount Everest Flight Cover with special flight label tied by flight cachet (only 87 flown), unused labels include a light blue single (gummed), blue block of 4 (gummed) and a dark blue block of 4 (ungummed), Very Fine. Estimate $750 - 1,000.
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Realized: $1,400