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Auction: CSS37 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 2070

China
Covers and Cancellations
Airmail
International Routes
China Clipper
1941 (19 Nov.) air mail envelope registered to England "Per Trans Pacific + Trans-Atlantic Air" bearing $12.80 franking tied by Canton c.d.s. with an unusual Shameen registration label and light Woking c.d.s. (22.12); two censor seals at side and, on the reverse, further despatch c.d.s., Honolulu (5.12), San Francisco, New York (8.12) and London datestamp; redirected to Worthing in Sussex. There is a long split across the address panel. Pays postage $1, registration $1 and double international air to Europe $5.40. Believed to be the last flight across the Pacific before the outbreak of the Pacific War. Photo


1941年11月19日廣東寄英國航空掛號封, "經太平洋及大西洋航空", 貼十二圓八角郵資, 銷廣州日戳, 貼不常見的沙面掛號簽紙, 另有12月22日Woking日戳; 信封邊有兩檢查封紙, 封背蓋另一廣州日戳, 12月5日檀香山戳, 三藩市, 12月8日紐約戳及倫敦日期戳; 在Sussex轉遞往Worthing, 封有些破裂; 此封付普通郵費及掛號費各一圓, 五圓四角的雙倍國際空郵費往歐洲, 相信這封是在太平洋戰爭爆發前, 利用最後一班貫穿於太平的的航班橫貫於太平洋送遞到美國.

Estimate
HK$5,000 to HK$7,000