【Summer 2024 Sales Special Features: HAMI WOODCHOP HANDSTAMP OVPT. 】
1933 Hami (17 Aug) to Yangliutsing. Registered airmail cover, f.w. Hami woodchop handstamp ovpt. Airmail stamp 4x 15c + Junk ovpt. Limited For Use in Sinkiang 4c + 5c + 20c on reverse, tied by Hami bilingual cds. Showing censor mark and registered mark. Transit Peiping (19 Aug), Tientsin (Aug). Arrived Yangliutsing (20 Aug). There are two types of woodchop handstamp ovpt. airmail stamps which were for Tihwa and Hami respectively. This is one of the two covers f.w. Hami ovpt. airmail stamps. Extremely scarce. Ex- Major James Starr. 2018 (Jan) Spink, Auction 18008, lot 2366. Realised HK$ 1,800,000 . Illustration p. 195 in “A Comprehensive Illustration of Covers with Sinkiang Provincial Airmail Stamps (1932-1933)” by Daivd Lu.
【夏拍拍品介紹：貼哈密加蓋航空票之信封】
1933.8.17 哈密寄楊柳青。掛號航空封，貼哈密木戳加蓋航空票4x 1角5分 + 帆船加蓋限新省貼用4分 + 5分 + 2角，銷哈密三格英漢日戳。另見檢查章及掛號章。8.19經北平，8.20經天津。同日抵楊柳青。新疆木戳加蓋航空票可分為迪化A型加蓋及哈密B型加蓋。此為貼用哈密B型加蓋航空票之兩件存世信封之一，有如鳳毛麟角。Major James Starr舊藏。2018年1月斯賓克，18008號拍賣，拍品號2366。成交價$1,800,000 .陸游《新疆木戳航空票(航新一)實寄封存世考圖鑒》第195頁原件。
