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Auction: CSS121 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 332

Foreign Post Offices
Italian Post Office
1925-43 The Black Battalion
1940 (20 July) postcard from Peking to Rome, via Siberia, bearing Imperial series 5c. (4) tied by the double-circle "baggat. italiano in cina/tientsin" datestamp and showing two censor handstamps (Italy entered the war on 6th June); also 1940 (9 Sept.) picture postcard from Tientsin to Moderna with the double-circle datestamp struck in violet with a second strike alongside, with censor handstamp and numeral struck in violet. (2 covers)

Estimate
HK$1,200 to HK$1,800

Starting price
HK$700