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Auction: CSS101 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 6620

China
Covers and Cancellations
Airmail - International
Post World War 2, Pre Unified Rates, Mail to Europe: 1947 (Apr.-June) four envelopes to Sweden with (28 Apr.) envelope to Stockholm bearing $4900 franking paying double air rate cancelled by Shanghai c.d.s.; (3 May) single franking $3000 from Shanghai to Stockholm with handstruck "via hong kong" in purple; (6 May) double weight envelope bearing single franking $5000 tied by Shanghai c.d.s. bearing handstruck "by air via hongkong" struck in black, overpaid by $100; (24? June) special envelope from the Swedish Mission on Teli She, Shansi bearing six adhesives making the $3000 franking with route annotation to be sent via Chungking and India, though this route had ceased paying surface $1100 and air $1900. (Walton 3.1.6). (4 covers)

Estimate
HK$1,800 to HK$2,400

Starting price
HK$1000