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Auction: 18008 - Sinkiang Postal History, The 'Manhattan' Collection
Lot: 2435

Sinkiang
Liberated Areas
Yili - Tahcheng - Altay Area (Eastern Turkistan Republic)
Woodblock Stamps: 1950 (13 Mar.) envelope registered to Tihwa bearing bisected $200 tied by indistinct Emin Uyghur/Russian c.d.s. with the boxed registered handstamp alongside and, on the reverse, neat Tihwa arrival (6.4). Addressed in Uyghurian script and Chinese. A fine and unique bisect. Photo

literature: The Postal History of Sinkiang, Wong and Xie, 2016 (illustrated page 190)

Sold for
HK$120,000