Lot# 9101

this cover is franked with sixteen stamps, totaling 15,800 yuan, comprising 3,100 yuan for the first 20g of international surface postage and 12,700 yuan for the airmail surcharge to America, with correct franking. Posted from Tientsin on June 5, routed south via Canton, and then forwarded through Hong Kong by Pan American Airways (PAA) to the United States. The franking includes a block of ten of P14 SC1 surcharge 800 yuan stamps, forming a striking postal composition. This cover fully demonstrates the rate structure and routing of transpacific mail during the 3rd Postal Rate Period, representing an important example of early PRC airmail correspondence to USA, of considerable postal historical and exhibition value.