Lot 1032

1911 Nekiang (30 Apr) to railway office, Lhasa. Red band cover, f.w. Coiling Dragon 10c, tied by Neikiang bilingual cds. Transit Chungking (2 May), Shanghai Chinese PO (May), Shanghai BPO (17 May), Hong Kong (22 May), Base Office (11 Jun), Gyantse. Arrived Lhasa (22 Jun). Redirected to Shigatse (29 Jun) with a directional slip. Addressee was still not found and return to sender with another slip. This cover was somehow not returned and was retrieved in the papers of S.W. Laden La. Very scarce redirected example from Szechuan to Tibet.

1911.4.30 內江寄拉薩鐵路所。紅條封，貼蟠龍1角，銷內江腰框英漢日戳。5.2經重慶，同月經上海中國郵局，5.17經上海英局，5.22經香港，6.11經基地郵局，隨後經江孜。6.22抵拉薩。後貼改寄憑單改寄西格孜（6.29），但收件人仍未尋獲，故再貼憑單退回寄件人。但不知何故此封並無退回，終於落入萊登拉的故紙堆中。四川寄西藏之難得例子。