77
Mongolia
492
492
1918 (23 June) A ROC Junk 1c light green stationery card from Urga to France, with additional Junk Peking print 1/2c & 3c,
each tied by bilingual 'URGA' cds, and the same cancellation on back side, plus a rare bisected 'Urga/Postal Letter Box/No.1' in
black char. (
庫倫/郵政信櫃/第壹號
) alongside, and faint bilingual 'KALGAN' and 'PEKING/3.7.18' transit. This Postal Letter Box
cancellation was only used in 1918-19, one of the rarest Mongolia cancellations.
The only other example we record is in the
Meiso Mizuhara collection, Spink 23th Jan. 2011, lot 1567
, a fabulous exhibition item. Photo
1918 <23 June> 民國帆船壹分淺綠色郵政片，由庫倫寄往法國，貼北京版帆船票半分及
叁
分。分別銷英漢〝庫倫〞戳，旁
邊另銷非常罕有漢文腰框〝庫倫/郵政信櫃/第壹號〞及模糊之英漢〝張家口〞及〝北京/3.7.18〞中轉戳。此郵政信櫃戳袛
用於1918-1919年期間，屬於蒙古罕有郵戳之一。相同款式的信櫃戳例子曾經出現在2011年1月23日的斯賓克內的<水原明
窗專集>內編號1567有所記錄，此屬非常罕有的展
覧
郵品。
HK$ 1,200,000 - 1,400,000
