Lot# 8011

tied by a struck of double-circle English datestamp “FORMOSAN REPUBLIC / TAINAN”, dated October 15, 1895. Posted barely ten days before the collapse of Formosan Republic, at a time when Japanese forces were already approaching Tainan, this cover demonstrates that the local postal administration continued to function and maintain overseas communications amid severe political turmoil. A key surviving example from the final phase of the Republic’s postal service, it symbolizes the government’s efforts to preserve postal autonomy and international correspondence during its brief existence. Of exceptional historical and philatelic importance, it ranks among the most representative surviving covers of Formosan Republic postal history. Ex Meiso Mizuhara Collection.