The 2023 Winter Auction - Sale 342
Sale 342
- (-) Remove The Collection of Imperial Post 4th Postal Cards filter The Collection of Imperial Post 4th Postal Cards
1908 (Sep) - 1910 (Dec), a group of two C.I.P. 4th stationery cards, with the one of reply portion of double card sent from Shanghai to Belgium, and the second one is a complete double card sent from Tientsin to Germany,
the first card was sent from Newchwang to Austria on 5 Apr 1909, affixed with a one-cent coiling dragon stamp and a two-cent coiling dragon stamp, cancelled with three Newchwang bilingual segmented circular date stamps (7 April), and another Moukden transit stamp (8 Apr 09), arriving in Austria on 24 April. The second card was sent to the German Association in Shanghai, with printed text content, cancelled with a Shanghai English-Chinese waist frame stamp, bearing a postman's mark. Both postal cards are in size of 140.5x181mm, very well preserved.
via Siberia. It was affixed with a 1-cent, a 3-cent, a 5-cent, and a 7-cent Coiling Dragon stamp, cancelled by five Shanghai English-Chinese semi-cut round postmarks (October 19, 1910). It bears the Shanghai registered mark "R / SHANGHAI / No.2798", and the arrival mark of Vienna, Austria (November 5). The total postage of 17 cents, overpaid by 3 cents to normal registered postal card rate. The postal card is well preserved.