Lot# 9078

franked with two postage meter labels from different machines, “Sui (III)” and “Sui (IV),” of 3 fen and 11 fen respectively, tied by Canton cds, paying the correct airmail rate of 14 fen for the period from Apr 29 to Jul 31, 1949 . Of particular interest is the combined usage of two different meter machine types on the same cover, representing a scarce example of mixed franking and reflecting the flexible allocation of postage meter labels and equipment under the postal conditions of the time. According to records, fewer than four such covers bearing mixed meter labels from different machine types are known. the present example, clearly struck and correctly rated, illustrates the practical operation of postage meter systems during the Silver Yuan period, and is of considerable importance for the study of post-war postal equipment usage and meter label application in South China, with strong postal history and exhibition significance.