Lot 1256

1917 Tanghar (Feb) to Taiping. Red band cover, f.w. Junk 3c in strip of 3, tied by Kansu Tanghar cds. Transit Siningfu (19 Feb), Lanchow (25 Feb), Sian (7 Mar). Arrived Taipinghsien (11 Mar). Early mails from small towns in Tsinghai are rather scarce.

1917.2 丹噶爾寄太平。紅條封，背貼帆船3分橫三連，銷甘肅丹噶爾腰框日戳。2.19經西寧府，2.25經蘭州，3.7經西安。3.11抵太平縣。出自青海小地名之信件頗為稀罕。