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Auction: 18008 - Sinkiang Postal History, The 'Manhattan' Collection
Lot: 2351

Sinkiang
Air Mails
Tihwa - Lanchow, Fifth Trial Flight, Return Leg
1932 (26 Nov.) blue on white air mail envelope registered to Nanking bearing 1924-36 4c. and 5c. (3) plus Sinkiang provisional airmail 15c. pair tied by Tihwa (Urumtsi) c.d.s. with the red on white registration label alongside, the reverse with Nanking arrival (2.12) with the Provincial censor seal type 5; a little roughly opened at foot. Paying 9c. postage, 10c. registration and 30c. airmail. With A. Brun photo certificate (1954). Lu 17. Photo

provenance:
Charles Dougan, May 1991

Sold for
HK$70,000