Lot# 9088

each franked with 100,000 yuan corresponding to the airmail rate to Asian destinations during the 1st Postal Rate Period (10 February - 19 August, 1950), however, expert examination shows that the postmarks on both covers are not genuine postal cancellations, but forged strikes applied after the fact, indicating that these covers were not genuinely mailed but rather fabricated or philatelically produced items. Although not authentic postal usages, their appearance follows the correct rate and format of the period, providing reference value for the study of the early postal system in the Northeast China Liberated Area and the phenomenon of postal fabrications in early PRC philately.