Auction: CSS46 - Fine Stamps of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 6171
Liberated Areas
North China
Chin-Ki-Cha Border Area (Shansi-Chahar-Hopeh)
1938 White Full Sun; First Printing on newsprint: 1939 (21 Mar.) envelope used locally bearing 1c. violet in a horizontal strip of five, well tied by Kuohsujen, Hopei c.d.s.; two folding creases well away form the stamps. Philatelic but a rarity nevertheless. Photo
Major James Starr, September 1991
Sold for
HK$24,000