The 2024 Winter Auction - Sale 344 - Day 3

1915 western style cover franked on front Junk 10c, canceled Shekchuenhsien 1915.2.16 cds., addressed to England and endorsed Via Siberia at top left,with a fine array of transit backstamps of CHUNGKIANGHSIEN showing MIN GUO FOURTH YEAR 1915.2.19, Mienchuhsien, Wanhsien, Hankow, Peking-Moukden Bureau Ambulant datestamp, arriving Ramsgatge 29 MR 1915. It took 29 days for the cover to travel from Peking-Mpoukden Railway to destination, evidencing that the "Via Siberia" mail service was somewhat affected by World War I.

1915年四川寄英國西式封，單貼帆船10分票，四川銷石泉縣腰框戳，背蓋有石泉縣、綿竹、罕見的中江縣“民國四年”、萬縣，漢口、京奉行動郵局等地中轉戳和英國到達戳。此封注明經西伯利亞郵路，從蓋京奉行動郵局戳之日起到目的地共用了29天，反映了一戰之發生大大的影響了西伯利亞郵路的運送速度。十分精彩的民國封，集多種特色於一身，適合各種郵集。