Lot 2156

Kuang Hsu (Guangxu) Year 24 (1898) Large official cover from Tali to Menghwa, applied with transit tombstone d.s. of Taiyang, Weiken and Tsanghung. It is the earliest Yizhan mail in Yunnan with tombstone cancellations. Despite rough edges, postmarks are not affected.

光緒二十四年（1898）大型公文封，自大理寄蒙化，鈐太陽站、圍埂站、蒼宏站碑形日戳。此為雲南最早之排單式碑形戳封。雖然邊緣磨損，但不影響郵戳。