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Auction: CSS22 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 2651

China
Covers and Cancellations
Overseas Instructional Marks
1920 (1 Dec.) an envelope to London carried by the Pacific route bearing Junk 1c. and 3c. (3) tied by Moukden c.d.s. with a large bilingual c.d.s. on the reverse; the cover bears the unframed "St. Paul, Minn./Damaged in Mail Car Fire/at Luverne, No. Dak. Dec./31st 1920." struck in purple with London arrival on the reverse (Jan. 25). Still quite clean for a recovered letter. Photo

The fire broke out on a Great Northern Railroad on New Year's Eve and affected both internal and the international mail from China and Japan addressed to U.S.A. and Europe

Sold for
HK$7,500