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Auction: 18008 - Sinkiang Postal History, The 'Manhattan' Collection
Lot: 2190

Sinkiang
Chinese Republic Post
Overprinted Stamps
1931 (10 May) printed commercial envelope to Tientsin "via Siberia" bearing 1916-19 16c. with 1924-36 4c. tied by Ningyuan (Kaludja) c.d.s. with a fine strike of Hoerhkwosze (Horgos) transit c.d.s. (14.5) alongside; the reverse with two Tientsin arrival marks (6.6) and a small part of the censor label. An attractive cover through the Horgos foreign exchange, along the Turkestan - Siberian railway and the Trans-Siberian railway. Paying the short-lived 20c. rate which was in force between 1 February and 1 July 1931. Photo

Sold for
HK$17,000