China’s 1932 Hedin Expedition Issue
Aug 13, 2021
2 minutes
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Swedish explorer Sven Hedin (1865-1952) led a scientific expedition to the northwestern part of China. In order to help fund this expedition, the Chinese postal service issued a set of four stamps with a total face value of 20c.
Of the printing of 25,000 sets only 4,500 were actually sold at face value at a number of Chinese post
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