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Air Mail cover TIENTSIN - PEKING: 3c. stationery letter sheet (vertical crease) to Peking endorsed "By Aeroplane" with additional Junk 10c. cancelled by neat strikes of Tientsin bilingual c.d.s. and shows fine strikes of the bilingual, boxed "CHINESE POST OFFICE/ Despatched by Aeroplane /TIENTSIN TO PEKING" and "RECEIVED BY AEROPLANE" handstamps in purple, the reverse with Express label and arrival c.d.s. Types message reads "This letter card will be forwarded in the first mail despatched by aeroplane from Tientsin to Peking. The aeroplane is a Handley-Page, supplied by the Ministry of Communications" . A fresh and colourful example of this rare flight. 195 carried. Muller 1a. Photo