Lot# 9074

bearing Swatow (1) postage meter label of Silver Yuan 10 fen x 2 and 40 fen, tied by Swatow cds, transiting Canton on Jun 30, 1949, and arriving Portland on Jul 8, 1949. The franking correctly pays the contemporary foreign registered airmail rate (period of use Apr 29 to Jul 4, 1949). The cover is well preserved, showing complete despatch, transit, and arrival markings, with clearly documented route and chronology. An important example for the study of early Silver Yuan foreign registered airmail rate structure, South China overseas mail routes via Hong Kong, and the practical use of postage meter labels, of considerable postal history and exhibition value.