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Auction: CSS37 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 2075

China
Covers and Cancellations
Airmail
International Routes
Burma Route, Route 6
1941 (2 Dec.) air mail envelope registered to Honolulu bearing $7.90 franking tied by Yuanling c.d.s. with unascribed registration label (with new manuscript number), Kweilin c.d.s. (8.12), Burma censor handstamp and Calcutta censor seal, the reverse with New York (21.6), San Francisco (25.6) and Honolulu (27.6) datestamps. Carried overland to Rangoon, by BOAC to Calcutta then surface to New York then by air to destination. Pays postage $1, registration $1 and old route 3 air mail $5.90. Photo

From the 16th December 1941, the war in the Pacific closed all eastbound air traffic. These first new routes were by surface to Rangoon, then by BOAC to Durban for transmission by sea mail


1941年12月2日中國寄檀香山航空掛號封, 貼七圓九角郵資, 貼有掛號簽紙, 有12月8日桂林戳, 及緬甸檢查戳, 加爾各答檢查封貼, 在封背蓋6月21日紐約戳, 6月25日三藩市戳及6月27日檀香山到達日戳. 由陸路到昂光, 經英國航空到加爾各答, 之後以平郵到紐約, 再用航空遞往目的地._x000D_ _x000D_ 1941年12月16日開始由中國經東路寄往美國航路被戰事中斷, 此新路線經平郵到達䀚光中轉, 再由英國航空帶到Durban再轉平郵.

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HK$5,500