Lot# 8004

Kuanghsu 16th year, 5th month, 1st day (June 17, 1890) Taipei to Huwei; Kuanghsu 18th year, 11th month, 1st day (December 19, 1892) Huwei to Taipei; and Kuanghsu 18th year, 11th month, 3rd day (December 21, 1892) Huwei to Taipei. After receiving the mail, the station clerk was required to record the weight and postage on the slip, while the red station code mark indicated the dispatching office, such as Taipeh General Station or Huwei Substation. This system represented Taiwan’s earliest modernized postal accounting and receipt mechanism, establishing both financial and documentary control within the local post. The group clearly demonstrates the operational process of the Taiwan Local Government Post during the late Ching period, with precise manuscript dates and distinct red chops. A key postal record from Taiwan’s pre-Formosan Republic era, highly important for the study of Liu Ming-chuan’s postal reforms and the emergence of Taiwan’s modern postal system. Mizuhara "Huayou Jijin II" vol. 7, p.261.