The 2023 Winter Auction - Sale 342
Sale 342
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16 May 1927, a ROC one and a half-cent junk stationey postal card, uprated with a 1/2-cent junk stamp and a 4-cent junk stamps, sent from Ningxia to Belgium. It bears three Ningxia English-Chinese triple-ring circular date stamps (dated 19th day, the 8th month, 16th year). There is also a Belgium arrival postmark (15 Sep 1927). Additionally, on the back of the card, there are transit marks with triple-grid circular date stamps from Tientsin and Harbin.
2 Feb 1925, a ROC one and a half-cent junk stationey postal card, uprated with an additional half-cent junk stamp and a 4-cent junk stamp, sent from Ningsia to Belgium via Siberia. It bears four Ningsia (Jia) English-Chinese triple-ring circular date stamps (dated 4th day, the 2nd month, 14th year). There are two transit marks with triple-grid circular date stamps from Taiyuan and Tientsin.
2 Sep 1931 a ROC seventh edition of 1-cent junk overprinted "For Use in Jilin-Heilongjiang" stationery card, uprated with one 1-cent junk ovpt., 4-cent junk ovpt., and a 10-cent junk ovpt., cancelled by 4 Harbin English-Chinese triple-grid datestamp. Additionally, it bears the company seal of "SIMPSONS AGENOTES P.O. Box 276 / HARBIN - MANCHURIA". This postal card was handwritten on 2 Sept and placed in a mailbox. The postal card is well-preserved.
Due to the outbreak of the 18 Sept 1931 Mukden Incident (also known as the "918 Incident"), postal delivery was suspended until approximately one month later. This item serves as a rare historical witness to the early days of the North Eastern Resistance during the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War following the imperative Mukden Incident.
16 Aug 1930, a ROC seventh edition Junk stationery card, sent as registered mail from Harbin to Paris, France, uprated with two 1-cent sailing ship stamps ovpt. "For Use in Jilin-Heilongjiang" and two 10-cent sailing ship stamps overprinted with the same. It was postmarked with three Harbin English-Chinese triple-ring date stamps (16.8.1930). Additionally, it bears the company seal of "RUSSO-MANCHURIAN BOOK-TRADE Co., Harbin, New-Town, Novotorgowala str. 9." Furthermore, a red-on-white registered label from Harbin is affixed and marked as "R/HARBIN No.18501." The registered stationery card together with the use of "For Use in Jilin-Heilongjiang" ovpt. stamps is exceptionally rare.
15 Oct 1904, a C.I.P. 2nd series stationery double-card reply portion, sent from Tungchow, Shensi Province to Sweden in Northern Europe, uprated with three 1-cent coiling dragon stamps, cancelled by a very rare Shensi Tungchow, lunar year Jia-Chen, hand-written lunar c.d.s (hand writing the Day 7th of the 9th month), and further cancelled by various lunar circular datestamps from Henan Shenchow, Hokanfu, and transit c.d.s. from Hankou and Shanghai. During transit, it was noticed that the 1-cent stamp on the postal card was yet to be cancelled and thereby cancelled with a pen stroke and the further by Hankow c.d.s. The postal card was delivered abroad to overseas via the Shanghai French P.O. Atlantic route to Northern Euro. This piece is a real gem of the C.I.P. hand-writing lunar year datestamps.
2 May 1908, a C.I.P. 2nd series stationery double-card reply portion, sent from Szechuan to Italy, uprated with one 1-cent and one 2-cent coiled dragon stamps, cancelled with a hand-writing Chengtu stamp (hand-writing the 3rd day of the 4th month, lunar year WuShen). Additionally, the 1-cent postage on card was cancelled with a Chungking Pakau cancellation, and Chengtu Chinese-English circular date stamp, the Shanghai bilingual circular datestamp, and the Shanghai British P.O. transit c.d.s. Rare to have a Szechuan Chengtu hand-writing stamp.
uprated with a half-cent coiling dragon stamp, cancelled by the extremely rare "大清郵政分局 / KIANGNAN ARSENAL / 江南製造局 " double-circle date stamp. On the back, there was a Shanghai bilingual bisected c.d.s. (Day 7th of the first month, the year Shen), with the character "Shen" used to represent the year, Kyoto arrival c.d.s. The card is partially trimmed. Kiangnan Arsenal was one of the two shipbuilding arsenals in Qing Dynasty, China , located at the Southern part of Shanghai. The other arsenal is Foochow Arsenal in Fukien Province. These two have evolved unique type of bilingual double circle postal cancellation with Chinese inscription「大清郵政分局」 and 「江南製造局」, both between concentric circles and English inscription KIANGNAN ARSENAL inside the inner circle. This Kiangnan Arsenal special dater is entirely different from the prevailing “CUSTOMS” or “DOLLAR CHOP” inscriptions. Less than a handful of this scarce dater has been recorded and even rarer when appeared in a C.I.P. stationery card for international mail.
1 Dec 1905, a C.I.P. 2nd series stationery card, sent from the Wangho (Yellow River) North Bank area in Huaiyin, to Netherland, uprated with three 1-cent coiling dragon stamps, cancelled by a hand-writing Chinese 3-grid datestamp "Wangho Pehon, lunar year Jiachen (11th) Month (6th) Day". The date was hand-written with the numerical values of both the month and day. It was further cancelled with a small lunar circular Chengchow datestamp in lunar year format, plus Hankow bilingual bisected c.d.s. and a Shanghai British P.O. Additionally, it bears the postal officer mark of "A.7", and Rotterdam arrival mark, Netherland arrival c.d.s. The cancellation with the hand-writing lunar year datestamp from the Wangho Pehon!' " i.e. North bank of Yellow River" area is rare. Thea C.I.P. 2nd series stationery double-card reply portion, item is well-preserved.
28 Feb 1903, a C.I.P. 1st series stationery card sent from Kian City, Kiangsi Province, to the United Kingdom, uprated with one 1 cent coiling dragon stamp and one 2-cent stamp, cancelled by two special large circular postmarks of the "Kian Post Office". It was transferred to Nanchang and stamped with a "Nanchang Post Office" tombstone, a Kiukiang bilingual bisected c.d.s., and a Shanghai bilingual transit c.d.s. It was then transferred to the Shanghai French P.O. for sea route dispatch to the United Kingdom. The Kian Post Office two-grid circular postmark is a special format postmark, and there are very few surviving real-world examples. This piece is in excellent condition.
13 Feb 1905, a C.I.P. 2nd series stationery card sent from the Xincheng District, Canton, to the United States, uprated with one 1-cent and 2-cent coiled dragon stamps, cancelled by two Canton bilingual biscted c.d.s. Next to it is a rare "Xincheng Canton Post Office/IMPERIAL POST OFFICE" special large circular double-ring postmark. It was then transferred to the Shanghai bilingual postmark and then to Yokohama, Japan and received an arrival mark in Brooklyn, United States. The Xincheng Canton P.O. sub-office postal double-ring postmark itself is rare in itself. Due to being a local sub-office, the locals mostly used it for red-band envelopes sent within the Mainland China. So, it is even rarer to have stationery card in use of such special local circular stamp for overseas mail to Brooklyn, U.S.A. The card is in excellent condition.
11 Feb 1904, a C.I.P. 2nd series stationery card from Kienning to Hong Kong, cancelled by "Fookien / Kienning" double-ring segmented datestamp, showing "Foochow / Tanweizhe" double-ring segmented datestamp (14 Feb), Foochow bilingual bisected transit c.d.s., and Victoria-Hong Kong arrival c.d.s. adjacent. A remarkably fabulous and outstanding Fookien and related stationery card postal history.
28 Feb 1915, a ROC 1-cent flag stationery card sent from Sushe to Shanghai, bearing a rare reverse type of "Sushe Post Office" cancellation mark in Chinese characters, along with two Shanghai transit marks (the first one with "SHANGHAI" in English above "上海" in Chinese, and the second one with "上海" in Chinese above "SHANGHAI" in English). The Sushe PO bureau was located in Sushe Town, Yixing City, Wuxi City, Kiangsu Province. As a small local post office, it is extremely rare to find such a well-preserved reverse type cancellation mark in Chinese characters. A highly valuable item.