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Auction: 7001 - Fine Stamps & Covers of Hong Kong
Lot: 1230

Hong Kong Covers and Cancellations Airmails 1932 (29 Oct.) experimental flight Saigon - Hong Kong via Air Orient, printed "par avion" envelope to Kwangtung bearing French Indo China 5c. (3, one applied after the others cancelled) and 10c. tied by Saigon despatch c.d.s. and bearing rose-red label "service accéléré" etiquette alongside; the reverse with a good strike of Hong Kong c.d.s. with solid bar in red (noon 1 NO 32) overstruck by Fort Bayard arrival c.d.s.(4/11); some soiling. Photo Estimate HK$ 4,000-5,000The experimental fight to link Saigon with Hong Kong by air picked up the mail at Saigon on 29 October in the Air Orient plane ´La Zelle´, piloted by Colonel Glaize and M. Nouques, delivering it in Hong Kong on 1st November

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HK$3,800