Lot# 5338

The 2024 Summer Auction - Sale 343 (June 27 - June 30, 2024)   June 27th - June 30th 2024, Hong Kong

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Lot# 5338
Starting Price: 22,000 HK$
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Addendum 更正事項 : The image of Lot 5338 was switched with Lot 5337 in hard copy catalogue ; 該拍品 Lot 5338 圖片在實體目錄中須跟 Lot 5337 對調
1915 western style cover franked on front Junk 10c, canceled Shekchuenhsien 1915.2.16 cds., addressed to England and endorsed Via Siberia at top left,

with a fine array of transit backstamps of CHUNGKIANGHSIEN showing MIN GUO FOURTH YEAR 1915.2.19, Mienchuhsien, Wanhsien, Hankow, Peking-Moukden Bureau Ambulant datestamp, arriving Ramsgatge 29 MR 1915. It took 29 days for the cover to travel from Peking-Mpoukden Railway to destination, evidencing that the "Via Siberia" mail service was somewhat affected by World War I.

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