The 2022 Winter Auction - Sale 339
17 – 20 December 2022
mixed franking postal card from Tsingtau to Germany via Chefoo, CIP issues tied by Tsingtau "Half Moon" Minchu cancels, while Russian PO in China issue tied by Russian PO cds., beautiful hand coloured painting on reverse. The incoming postcards from Russia to Tsingtau via Shanghai. Vladivostok - Shanghai route was adopted.
all bearing Chefoo French PO transit cds., some also bearing Dairen transit cds., indicating Chefoo - Darien steamer route.
Austria to Tsingtau card via South Manchuria Railway Train PO, Moukden and Tsinan. Latter 2 examples from Fangtze to Austria via Kiaochow-Tsinan Railway before transfering to the Northern section of Tientsin Pukow Railway and Peking-Moukden Railway.
uprated by Republic commemorative issue 3c, tied by Kiaochow bilingual cds., along with Kiaochow-Tsinan Railway express mail (Mar 17) and Moukden (Mar 19) transit. The cover was further delivered via Tientsin-Pukow Railway and Peking-Moukden Railway to Moukden
both f.w. Russian issues, tied by St. Petersburg - Varshaskaya (Warsaw) line 5 (Nov 4) and Omsk - Chelyabinskaya line 168 cds (Sep 5) respectively, along with Changchun transit. 1 card was furthered transferred to Dairen and Chefoo before the inauguration of the Northern section of Tientsin-Pukow Railway while another card took the route via Peking and Tsinan before the operation.