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Auction: 18008 - Sinkiang Postal History, The 'Manhattan' Collection
Lot: 2298

Sinkiang
Chinese Republic Post
Unified Postage - Secret Foreign Mail Exchange
1944 (24 July) opened-out envelope to U.S.A. bearing Central Trust $1 (2) and $2 tied by Tihwa/Urumtsi c.d.s. with a different despatch on the reverse along with "base postal depot/bombay" (10.10) and Peshawar censor seal. Paying the $4 international postage rate. With the Burma road closed by the Japanese army, letters were sent by air mail to Calcutta (then via Lagos or Egypt), however, the postal route from Sinkiang to India had been secretly re-opened. So far no other letter travelling by this route has been discovered. Photo

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HK$85,000