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Auction: CSS37 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 2100

China
Covers and Cancellations
Airmail
International Routes
Chungking - Calcutta Routes
1942 (27 Jan.) envelope to Edinburgh bearing $12.30 franking tied by Kunming c.d.s. with Calcutta and British censor seals. Some glue marks around the adhesives and a few faults at top, nevertheless and rare and important cover paying postage $1 and air $11.30 by Imperial Airways route III, by CHinese airways to Calcutta, BOAC to Lagos, thence to Lisbon via Miami by PAA and overland to Scotland via London. Thought to be one of only two cover charged at this fee which was used between January 21st and February 25th. Photo


1942年1月27日昆明寄愛丁堡航空封, 貼十二圓三角郵資, 銷昆明日戳, 並有加爾各答及英國的檢查封紙, 罕見採用皇家航空第三航路的實寄封, 用中國航空到加爾各答, 英國航空往洛杉機, 之後利用PAA經邁阿密往里斯本, 再平郵經倫敦到蘇格蘭, 相信存世共有兩件信封利用這郵資並只寄於1月21日至2月21日之間.

Sold for
HK$10,000