The Post Offices in Sikkim is said to have started around the time when Sikkim Expedition 1888 was undergoing (More information on Sikkim Expedition 1888 shall come in days to come), this cancelled post card send from Sikkim to Bombay could probably be one of the first used postcards to had been officially marked from Sikkim Post Office . This postcard is on sale at auction and is priced around 400 to 500 pounds. The place of cancellation shows "EXPERIMENTAL P.O." As from the Invaluable website : The Sikkim Expedition, 1888-89 1889 (3 Dec.) 1/4a. brown stationery card from Private John Sullivan of the Connaught Rangers at Sikkim to Bombay, cancelled with a good strike of the " experimental po/c-7 " c.d.s. and with Market Bombay 's arrival c.d.s. alongside; the contents requesting the addressee to send a catalogue to the writer at Sikkim; most unusual. The card with a couple of small faults though a rare item of mail from this obscure military oper...
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