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Auction: CSS101 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 6622

China
Covers and Cancellations
Airmail - International
Post World War 2, Pre Unified Rates, Mail to America: 1946 (Oct.- Dec.) a selection of envelopes to U.S.A. with (8 Oct.) express registered to New York bearing, on the reverse, $4400 franking tied by Shanghai c.d.s. and paying surface $300, three times air $1000, registration $450 and express $650; (12 Oct.) special envelope to New York rated at $2100 (paying the old rate); (14 Oct.) opened-out envelope registered to New York bearing $1750 franking tied by Tsinan c.d.s. and sent via Shanghai; (15 Oct.) commercial envelope to New York bearing $4300 franking tied by Shanghai c.d.s. and paying quadruple air rate; (18 Oct.) envelope to New York "By air up to Shanghai and thence by surface transport" bearing $330 franking paying internal airmail $30 plus surface $300; (9 Nov.) basic rate envelope to New York bearing $1300 franking tied by Shanghai c.d.s.; (11 Nov.) express registered to New York bearing, on the reverse $3400 franking paying double air; (10 Dec.) envelope to Los Angeles bearing $1300 franking tied by Canton c.d.s. and paying the old rate which changed on 22 November. (Walton 3.1.2). (8 covers)

Estimate
HK$3,500 to HK$5,000

Starting price
HK$2500