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Auction: 15037 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 144

Documents
Sweden
Sven Hedin
1950 (28 May) autograph card to Mrs Helen Washbourn replying to a request for his Chinese stamps,signed "Sven Hedin". With the original envelope and an additional portrait card which he has also signed and dated. Photo

Sven Anders Hedin (1865-1952) was a Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer, and illustrator of his own works. During four expeditions to Central Asia, he made the Trans-himalaya known in the West and located sources of the Brahmaputra, Indus and Sutlej Rivers. He also mapped Lake Lop Nur, and the remains of cities, grave sites and the Great Wall of China in the deserts of the Tarim Basin. The stamps in question was the set issued by China in 1932 for the North-West Scientific Expedition

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