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Auction: CSS37 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 2074

China
Covers and Cancellations
Airmail
International Routes
Burma Route, Route 6
1941 (11 Dec.) Chinese air mail envelope to Buffalo "via China Clipper" bearing $5 franking tied by Wanting, Yunnan c.d.s. with two different censor seals and Rangoon "14" handstamp in purple, the air mail designation has been cancelled by parallel red bars (an unknown jusqu'à mark). Carried overland to Rangoon, then by air to Durban via Cairo then by surface mail to U.S.A. Pays postage $1 and only $4 for air mail, for which there was not such rate. Photo


1941年12月11日雲南寄美國水牛城中國航空封, 經"中國快船"號航機, 貼五圓郵資, 另有兩種不同檢查封紙及紫色䀚光"14"號手戳, 航空標記被紅色平行橫線取消了; 平郵到䀚光後, 再由航空經開羅到Darban, 之後以平郵到達美國.

Sold for
HK$12,000