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Bidboard # 1919
Lot # 297
Catalogue Value or Estimate: $450.00
Price Realized: $450
Worldwide Postal History

1924 Everest Expedition Cards and Labels. Increasingly scarce and popular group of five "RONGBUK GLACIER BASE CAMP" postcards from the 1924 Mount Everest expedition in Tibet. All franked with the expedition semi-official stamp depicting the mountain and postmarked by the Indian PO at Calcutta with a "BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION 1924" machine slogan cancel. All sent to the UK. The back of each card depicts Mount Everest as well as a short note from an expedition member. A mint block of 6 of the Expedition semi-official label accompanies. This Everest material is starting to sell for real money on eBay and other platforms. Note: This is the expedition during which the climbers George Mallory (body discovered in 1999) and Andrew Irvine disappeared while close to the summit. They may very well have been the first climbers to actually arrive at the summit. Estimate