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Auction: 18008 - Sinkiang Postal History, The 'Manhattan' Collection
Lot: 2347

Sinkiang
Air Mails
Lanchow - Tihwa Section, Second and Third Trial Flight
1932 (10 Aug.) blue on white air mail envelope to Tahcheng bearing Junk 5c. with Sun Yat Sen 4c. tied by Peiping c.d.s. and with Tihwa arrival (25.11) tying the grey-blue Par Avion etiquette and, on the reverse, further Tihwa c.d.s., Tahcheng bilingual arrival (22.11) and returned to sender with further Peiping arrival (2.12) along with Provincial censor seal type 5 tied by censor's square handstamp in red. A rare and important round-flight cover. Photo

provenance:
Paul Hock, October 1983


Regulations issued by the Director General of Posts, all mail sent by air, to and from Sinkiang, on or after 11 Aigust 1932 was to be sharged an additional air mail fee

Sold for
HK$150,000