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Auction: CSS37 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 1999

China
Covers and Cancellations
Airmail
International Routes
Imperial Airways
1940 (13 Jan.) air mail envelope to Holland "Per 'Squadane' to Hongkong, Per Imp Airways to Europe" and bearing $2.25 franking tied by Kulangsu c.d.s. with a fine strike of circular "passed by/censor/hong kong/no. 5" in purple, insufficiently prepaid for air mail and the air mail label and instructions crossed through in bright scarlet parallel lines; the reverse with Victoria Hong Kong c.d.s. (15.1); fragment of the top left corner missing. The rate should have been postage 50c. and air mail to Europe $2, underpaid by 25c. Photo


1940年1月13日古浪嶼寄荷蘭航空封, 經"Squadane"去香港, 及經Imp航空往歐洲, 貼二圓二角五分郵資, 銷古浪嶼日戳, 另蓋紫色圓框式香港檢查號"5", 因郵資不足而被取消了空郵, 並於航空簽紙上劃上"X", 封背蓋1月15日香港中轉戳. 信封的左上角位有缺. 正確的航空郵費往歐洲為二圓, 普通郵費為五角, 因而郵費少欠二角五分.

Estimate
HK$2,000 to HK$2,500