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Auction: 18008 - Sinkiang Postal History, The 'Manhattan' Collection
Lot: 2015

Sinkiang
Russian Post Office
Chuguchak
1903 (3 Apr.) 4k. stationery card to Berlin cancelled by two strikes of the type C1-2 c.d.s. and showing Charlottenburg arrival (21.5) at left. Fine and the earliest recorded item of mail from Chuguchak. This card was written in Turfan by Hedrik Huth, a member of a German expedition. Signed by Peter Holcombe. A rare and important card from this post office. Photo

Chuguchak is the administrative seat of the district of Tarbagatai, in northern Sinkiang. It lies at the foot of the Tarbagatai mountains, about 250 miles north-west of Urumchi, and less that 20 miles from the Siberian border.

Sold for
HK$250,000