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Auction: 16013 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 2279

China
Covers and Cancellations
Airmail
1925 (12 Sept.) "de Pindo" Special Flight Shanghai - Nagasaki bearing 1825 3c. on 4c. well tied by Shanghai c.d.s. and bearing a fine strike of the boxed "first airmail/china-japan" handstamp in purple; without backstamp which is usual for these covers. Fine. Starr 10; Muller 9. Photo

This mail was delivered at Kagoshima airfield on 13 September and delivered to the Japanese official, however, it was not until March 1926 that they were located and delivered. Only 52 of the original 70 letteres were recovered

Sold for
HK$3,800