CHINA Registered Express Airmail Cover TIENTSIN To NY Via Shanghai & SF (1946?)
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:10983133 | Modified Item: No |
| Region: China | Quality: Used |
| Cancellation Type: Handstamped |
I believe the stamps are numbers 576, 614 and 691(x3), all issued in 1945/46. The year date isn't clear in any of the postmarks - at least one of them looks more like "48" than "46, " but inflation was well underway in 1948 and this would have been insufficient postage by then.Mailed from Tientsin (Tianjin) 1/11, Shanghai transit cancel 3/11, San Francisco transit cancel Dec.19 (that's Express Mail...?) and Brooklyn, New York receiving cancel Dec. 20 (OK, that leg of the journeywas Exp...ress). Condition - cut open along RH edge with enough paper lost that the red and blue border is goneon that side; some extra paper-loss from the upper half of the back panel along that same edge; a bit of the UR corner is gone as well; quite a few full-height creases/bends with the sharpest ones being near the sides; lots of mild wrinkles; mild soil.Thanks for bidding!
