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Auction: 18008 - Sinkiang Postal History, The 'Manhattan' Collection
Lot: 2350

Sinkiang
Air Mails
Tihwa - Lanchow, Fifth Trial Flight, Return Leg
1932 (27 Nov.) blue on white air mail envelope to Lanchow beaing 1924-36 4c. and 5c. plus the Sinkiang provisional airmail 15c. tied by Tihwa (Urumtsi) despatch c.d.s. and bearing, on the reverse, Lanchow arrival (1.12) and the large oval censor handstamp in red. Various guarantee signatures. The additional airmail postage to Lanchow was 15c. Lu 59. Photo

provenance:
Sir David Roseway, November 1963


The trial flight left Lanchow on 21st November and the plane reached Tihwa on the 25th. The reverse flight left Tihwa on 1st December, arriving in Lanchow on the same day.

Sold for
HK$65,000