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Auction: CSS90 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 5253

China International Airmails
Post World War 2, Pre Unified Rates
Mail to America
1946 (Oct.- Dec.) a selection of envelopes to U.S.A. with (8 Oct.) express registered to New York bearing, on the reverse, $4400 franking tied by Shanghai c.d.s. and paying surface $300, three times air $1000, registration $450 and express $650; (12 Oct.) special envelope to New York rated at $2100 (paying the old rate); (14 Oct.) opened-out envelope registered to New York bearing $1750 franking tied by Tsinan c.d.s. and sent via Shanghai; (15 Oct.) commercial envelope to New York bearing $4300 franking tied by Shanghai c.d.s. and paying quadruple air rate; (18 Oct.) envelope to New York "By air up to Shanghai and thence by surface transport" bearing $330 franking paying internal airmail $30 plus surface $300; (9 Nov.) basic rate envelope to New York bearing $1300 franking tied by Shanghai c.d.s.; (11 Nov.) express registered to New York bearing, on the reverse $3400 franking paying double air; (10 Dec.) envelope to Los Angeles bearing $1300 franking tied by Canton c.d.s. and paying the old rate which changed on 22 November. Rate 3.1.2. (8 covers)

Start Date Route Surface 20g. Air 5g.

3.1.1. 26 Sept.1946 Hong Kong $300 $900

3.1.2. 3 Oct.1946 $300 $1000

3.1.3 22 Nov 1946 $300 $1100

3.1.4. 1 Jan. 1947 $300 $650

3.1.5. 1 Mar. 1947 $1100 $650

3.1.6. 10 Mar. 1947 $1100 $1900

3.1.7. 1 July 1947 $1100 $2100

3.1.8. 2 Oct. 1947 $1100 $2300

3.1.9. 13 Oct. 1947 $5500 $12,500

These rates finished on 1 December 1947


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Estimate
HK$5,000 to HK$8,000

Starting price
HK$3500