Lot# 9089

bearing two Silver Yuan stamps paying the postage, tied by Kushui cds and arriving Taipei on Sep 26, 1949. The franking correctly pays the domestic airmail rate of 15 fen. Of particular significance is that the cover originated from a recently Communist-controlled area lacking aviation facilities, yet was successfully transmitted as an airmail item to Taiwan. It is believed to have been forwarded through war-zone routes to Canton or Hong Kong, where it entered the Nationalist-operated air network (CNAC or CAT) for onward transmission. Such cross KMT - CCP territorial airmail covers reaching Taiwan are very rare, vividly illustrating the disruption and provisional adaptation of postal routes during the late Civil War period. With a transit time of approximately 13 days and a complete route, the cover represents an important postal history item for the study of wartime airmail operations, transitional cross-regional postal arrangements, and early cross-strait postal communications.