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Auction: 18008 - Sinkiang Postal History, The 'Manhattan' Collection
Lot: 2397

Sinkiang
Air Mails
Domestic Air Mail
1945 (9 Oct.) envelope to Shanghai bearing, on the reverse, Central Trust 30c. (2, one defective) and Paicheng $4 tied by Tihwa (Urumtsi) c.d.s. with faint Chungking (10.10) transit and Shanghai arrival c.d.s.; the address side with grey-blue Par Avion etiquette and a different despatch c.d.s. Five times face value paying the newly introduced postage of $20 and the airmail rate which remained at $3. Photo

The postage rate was increased from $2 to $20 on 1st October

Sold for
HK$3,200