Iraq, interesting Air Mail cover from Baghdad to Manchester ...

Hammer

£130

Iraq, interesting Air Mail cover from Baghdad to Manchester circa 1923-1925, sent to Mr J. S. Sykes, 52 Princess Street, Manchester – Joseph Sassoon Sykes – with handstamp for Ezra Sassoon & Co with two wax Sassoon seals to reverse. 1923-1925 1a, 8a & 1r (x3) used on reverse, registered Baghdad & Air Mail label to front. We know Joseph Sassoon Sykes was based in Manchester in this period (The Scribe, Issue 58, June 1993) and had originally been brought to Manchester by Abdullah Elias. Joseph Sassoon Sykes was a partner of E & J S Sykes, a firm of international cotton, tea & opium merchants based in Manchester & Baghdad. E & J S Sykes (established in 1894) was a partnership of four Baghdadi brothers: Ezra Sassoon Sehayik (b. 1860, later known as Ezra Sassoon), Joseph Sassoon Sehayik (b. 1863, from 1888 known as Joseph Sassoon Sykes, naturalised British 1904), Moshi Sassoon Sehayik (b. 1875, later known as Moshi Sassoon Schayek), and Heskel Sassoon Sehayik (b. 1883, naturalised British 1907).