£150 - £150
United States of America. Pair of 1918 Airmail covers addressed to Sir William Wiseman, British diplomat and intelligence agent, in New York, both bearing a 24c 'Jenny' Scott C3 cancelled by 'Air Mail Service Wash. N.Y. Phila. 'Washington' / Jul 8 10PM' pmks and 'Fee claimed at office of first / address N.Y.P.O.' Wiseman was an important liaison between the British Government and the Woodrow Wilson administration during the First World War and was also head of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) Section V counter-espionage unit in New York. From an old-time collection of British diplomatic covers. Qty 2. (R)
For related postal history items, see Lots 168, 254 and 336.
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