Lot 196

1918 Tihwa (4 Aug) to England, f.w. Junk ovpt. Limited For Use in Sinkiang 10c, tied by faint cds. Showing "via Canada" annotation as the Siberian route was not available due to WWI and Russian Civil War. Applied with 1st print officially resealed labels x12 (in which 2 lost afterward) with Peking (19 Dec) transit cds and "Reached Peking in broken condition" annotation. Scarce resealed example from Sinkiang.

1918.8.4 迪化寄英國，貼帆船加蓋限新省貼用1角。由於西伯利亞郵路因一戰及俄國內戰而受阻，故見“via Canada”批注。貼十二枚第一版民國代封票，當中兩枚隨後掉落，鈐北京12.19中轉戳，寫有“Received Peking in broken condition”批示。極少見之新疆代封郵件。