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Auction: CSS37 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 1961

China
Covers and Cancellations
Airmail
International Routes
Trans-Siberian Airline
Irkutsk to Moscow Air Service: 1932 (20 May) opened-out envelope registered to Paris "Par Avion de Irkutsk via Moscou" with additional handstamps indicating the same route, grey-blue Par Avion etiquette, registration label (partly removed) and illustrated Berlin circular air mail cachet, the reverse with Junk 5c. and Sun Yat Sen 20c. and $1 (2) tied by Tientsin English/Chinese c.d.s., Harbin (23.5), Berlin (4.6) and Paris (5.6) c.d.s plus manuscript weight "6 grs". Some light soiling but a good cover being very late acceptance for this route; The China Post Office discontinued the use of the Irkusk - Moscow - Berlin route on 26 July 1931 when the Japanese took control of Manchuria. This cover was mailed through Manchukuo.

Pays postage 25c., registration 25c. and air mail $1 to Moscow with additional 75c. from Moscow to Paris. Photo


伊爾庫次克-莫斯科航空股務: 1932年5月20日天津"經由伊爾庫次克-莫斯科航空)寄巴黎掛號破剖空郵封, 貼灰藍色航空簽紙, 掛號簽紙及柏林圓型空郵票, 在封背貼帆船伍分票, 孫像貳角一枚及壹圓兩枚, 銷天津中英文日戳, 5月23日哈爾濱日戳, 6月4日柏林中轉戳, 6月5日巴黎到達戳, 並有手寫重量為"6 grs", 有輕微污染, 但仍為難得極晩期利用此航路之實寄封; 中國郵政局停止再利用伊爾庫次克-莫斯科-柏林航空郵路,當日本於1931年7月26日控制了滿州, 而這封是正經滿州國所寄出.

Sold for
HK$7,000