Lot# 9100

this cover is franked with sixteen stamps, totaling 27,800 yuan (Old RMB), slightly overpaying the correct rate of 27,700 yuan for a 20g registered airmail letter to USA. The postage comprised 2,500 yuan for the first 20g surface rate, 21,000 yuan for two airmail surcharges of 10,500 yuan, and 4,200 yuan for registration. Tied by Shanghai 50.11.14 cds with Canton 50.11.18 transit and New York arrival. The cover was routed south via Canton and carried by Pan American Airways (PAA) transpacific service through Hong Kong. A fine and correctly rated early PRC registered airmail cover to the United States, clearly illustrating the high-rate postal structure of the Old RMB system and the reestablished transpacific route in the early years of the People’s Post, a significant item for postal history and exhibition study.