Auction: 18008 - Sinkiang Postal History, The 'Manhattan' Collection
Lot: 2340
Sinkiang
Postal Stationery
Unoverprinted
1936 (25 Dec.) 1936 15c. Sun Yat Sen card to Canterbury in England sent from Kitai "via Semipaletink & Urumtsi and Moscow", cancelled by Tihwa (Urumtsi) c.d.s. with a strike in red (31.12) on the message side to indicate censorship. Fine and a scarce card, it has been reported that only 900 postcard were handled by Sinkiang in 1936, this example being sent via Chuguchak. Han 47. Photo
Sold for
HK$60,000