Lot 197

Republic of Georgia 格魯吉亞to Tientsin, China via Poti - Registered 1923 13 July 1923, a remarkable early Soviet-era registered cover posted from the rural Georgian locality of Kumari, as evidenced by the clear Cyrillic postmark: "КУМАРИ ТИФЛ. ОКР. ПОчт. КОНТ. / 13.7.23" (Kumari, Tiflis District Postal Control, 13 July 1923) addressed to Mrs. J. J. Gaull, Imperial Hotel, Tientsin, China, The cover bears a Poti registration label (No. 536), showing it was routed through the Black Sea port city of Poti, a regional hub under the Tiflis postal district, franked with a combination of 1922-23 overprinted Soviet Georgia high-denomination stamps, including 3 x 3000 maneti (brown), 4 x 2000 maneti (dark blue) tied by Kumari datestamps; also cancelled with a bold bilingual arrival mark: "TIEN TSIN / 11 AUG 23". This is a rare Soviet Transcaucasia to Tientsin from the early Georgian SSR under Soviet administration.

格魯吉亞寄往中國天津——經波季轉運之掛號郵件(1923年) 1923年7月13日,一件極具歷史意義的早期蘇聯時期掛號信件,自喬治亞蘇維埃共和國鄉村地區的庫馬里(Kumari)寄出,郵戳清晰可見俄文「КУМАРИ ТИФЛ. ОКР. почт. конт. / 13.7.23]. 信封貼有註明「第536號」Poti 掛號標籤,顯示此信件經由黑海港口城市波季轉運。 波季為當時隸屬第比利斯郵區的重要郵政樞紐。郵資方面貼用1922-23年喬治亞蘇維埃共和國期間發行之高面值附加蓋銘郵票,包括:棕色3000馬內票共3枚,深藍色 2000馬内票共4枚,均蓋有庫馬里日戳銷票,信封背面蓋有醒目的雙語到達戳「TIEN TSIN/11 AUG23」,證實於1923年8月11日送達天津。 此件為罕見的蘇維埃外高加索地區格魯吉亞寄往天津的郵件實寄範例,。