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Auction: 18008 - Sinkiang Postal History, The 'Manhattan' Collection
Lot: 2363

Sinkiang
Air Mails
Shanghai - Tihwa Line - Resumption of Flights
1933 (10 July) blue on white air mail envelope double registered to Kunming on the fifth regular flight, bearing 1924-36 6c., Sun Yat Sen 2c., Martyrs ½c. (2) (all on reverse) with provisional air mail 5c. (2) and 10c., Tan Yenkai 5c. (2) and second air mail 90c. tied by Tihwa (Urumtsi) c.d.s., the reverse with Kunming arrival (28.7). Paying postage 9c., double registered 20c. and airmail $1. Lu 114. Photo

provenance:
Sir David Roseway, January 1973

Sold for
HK$70,000