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Auction: 18008 - Sinkiang Postal History, The 'Manhattan' Collection
Lot: 2305

Sinkiang
Chinese Republic Post
Unified Postage - Official Mail
1943 (21 May) official envelope registered to Tihwa bearing Martyrs 1c. (2) H.K. print and 40c. Peking print tied by Ining dotted Chinese/English c.d.s., showing manuscript registration number and, on the reverse, large part Ining c.d.s. in violet for censorship, part of the registration slip and large official seal in crimson. Paying 16c. postage and 26c. registration, these rates should have finished on 1 December 1942

Mail over the War Zone in the isolated postal service continued to use the old tariffs

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