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Auction: 18008 - Sinkiang Postal History, The 'Manhattan' Collection
Lot: 2028

Sinkiang
Russian Post Office
Kashgar
1905 (3 Oct.) opened-out envelope addressed to Ellsworth Huntington in Kashgar "Via Baku, Russia", franked with U.S. 1c. and 2c. (2) tied by Boston duplex cancellations, the reverse with Boston (4.10), New York (5.10) and Fergana (13.10) c.d.s. A scarce cover using the consular mail service, which was made available to explorers in the region. Photo

Ellsworth Huntington (1876 – 1947) was a professor of geography at Yale University. He accompanied the Pumpelly (1903) and Barrett (1905–1906) expeditions to central Asia; and wrote of his Asian experiences in Explorations in Turkestan (1905) and The Pulse of Asia (1907).

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