1911 cover send from London, Ontario, Canada to Kiating,
Szechuan, China.
Send with 5 cents of Canadian postage. Missent to Seattle with purple 'Missent to Seattle,
Foreign Division' cancel and Seattle date stamp on the back of the cover.
It took a special routing to TengYueh via Burma with a TengYueh date stamp of 9 MAR, 11.
It then traveled to Yunnanfu and two other inland towns in the Yunnan Province before
reaching Szechaun Province.
The cover is sealed with four Official seals. Only one of the seal is complete and the
three others are cutted into halves for sealing. The Official seals are then tied with
nine strokes of the Chungking bi-lingual date stamp of 17 APR, 11. Other cancels from the
Szechuan Province are Lunar Chungking and Suifu and a receiving lunar cancel of Kaiting of
1911, third month, fifteen. |