The 2025 December Auction - Sale 346 (December 13 - December 16, 2025)
Sale 346
during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, franked with a Japanese Kiku 3s paying the equivalent of the contemporary domestic letter rate. As the postage was paid with a Japanese stamp not recognized by the Chinese postal authorities, the cover was treated as unpaid, with three “T” due handstamps applied on reverse. A rare example of such postal treatment during this period.
f.w. a 3 cent Junk issue stamp, bearing wooden handstamp “廣州郵政三叁號信箱”. Received on Aug 28 of the same year, with a postal transit time of ten days.
f.w. 50¢ postage. First conveyed to Chungking, then carried via the Chungking–Hong Kong route through Kunming, departing Hong Kong on November 13, 1939. No arrival backstamp upon reaching England.
airmail letter from Kweiyang to the United States, franked $6.15 postage, bearing Kweiyang cds at the corner. Carried via the Chungking–Rangoon route to Calcutta, India, where it was opened and resealed by censor, arriving on February 10, 1941, with arrival cds.
f.w. $20.40 postage, bearing Suikai cds. Routed via Kweilin and carried by the diversion air route to Calcutta, India, where it was opened and resealed by censor, bearing examiner handstamps DHF/8 and DHF/13. Arrived on March 15, 1943, with arrival cds.
f.w. $25 in National Currency yuan postage. The cover was opened, examined, and resealed by Allied censorship at Calcutta, India before dispatch. It transited via Miami on Nov 30, 1943, and arrived in New York on Dec 2, bearing Miami transit and New York arrival postmarks.
1943 (Oct 29) airmail cover from Kweiyang, Kweichow to Michigan, U.S.A., a rare wartime inland correspondence to the United States. Franked with Hong Kong Chung Hwa print 10¢, and Hong Kong Dai Tung print $1 and $5 stamps (such usage from remote inland areas being very scarce), the cover was opened, examined, and resealed by Allied censorship at Calcutta, India, bearing resealing tape and censor markings. At left affixed with “Par Avion” etiquette; reverse with bisected “Kweichow Kweiyang” cds.
bearing wooden handstamp “貴州興仁卡子村鎮信櫃”. Originally sent to the Ministry of Justice and Administrative Affairs in Chungking, arriving there on July 1, 1946, and subsequently reforwarded to Nanking after the central government’s relocation following the victory in the Sino-Japanese War, reaching the addressee on July 26 of the same year.
f.w. one unit stamp for surface postage and one for registration, the enclosure noted as a money order to be verified by the Chungking Branch of the Supreme Court. Bearing arrival postmark dated May 24 of the same year (stamps trimmed at top).
f.w. one unit stamp for surface postage and two stamps for registration. Bearing Chungking arrival postmark dated June 16 of the same year, well preserved and in fine condition.
f.w. Silver Yuan 4¢ x 4, underpaying the required postage and treated as insufficiently paid. Bearing Chungking arrival cds of June 28 of the same year.
f.w. revenue surcharged Silver Yuan 4c and 10c, and South China Silver Yuan 1c (total 0.15 yuan), bearing Huaxi cds, arriving Aug 18 in Taipei. A cross-strait correspondence cover, evidencing the relocation of the Nationalist Government to Taiwan.