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Auction: CSS49 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 361

China
Postal History
Republic of China
1931 (4 Jul.) airmail envelope from Shanghai to Germany bearing on reverse one set Second Peking Air Mail Issue 15c. to 90c., Junk 5c. 30c., 50c., $1 and $2 (in block of six), cancelled by Shanghai machine d.s., with Berlin transit c.d.s. (18.7) and Hamburg arrival c.d.s. (19.7), with handwrttien postal instruction "Par Avion de Irkutsk via Moscow" and "By Eurasia air mail via Siberia" on front, showing "Mit Luftpost befordert/Luftpostamt/Berlin C2" circular cachets in red. rare usage of $2 in blocks.

Sold for
HK$8,000