Lot# 9098

this cover is franked with thirteen R series issues, totaling 13,000 yuan (Old RMB), paying the correct rate for a 20g airmail letter to “Other Countries”, 2,500 yuan for the first 20g surface postage plus 10,500 yuan for the 10g airmail surcharge. Postmarked Pingyin 51.8.18 cds with Canton 51.8.31 transit, the cover was routed via Canton to Hong Kong, then carried by Pan American Airways (PAA) to England. A representative example of early PRC airmail to Europe during the Old RMB period, it clearly demonstrates the postal rate structure and the functioning of the trans-Asian and European airmail routes in the early 1950s, making it an important item for postal history research and exhibition.