Lot 2563
2563
cover 1901 (19 Jan.) unoverprinted 4s. stationery card to Germany (11.3 arrival) cancelled by the rare "YANGTSUN/I.J.P.O." c.d.s. (date inverted), Yokohama and New York transit c.d.s.; message side showing a pen and ink sketch of a bridge demolished as a result of military action, together with a caption and message in German script. Fine. Photo

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cover 1901 (19 Jan.) unoverprinted 4s. stationery card to Germany (11.3 arrival) cancelled by the rare "YANGTSUN/I.J.P.O." c.d.s. (date inverted), Yokohama and New York transit c.d.s.; message side showing a pen and ink sketch of a bridge demolished as a result of military action, together with a caption and message in German script. Fine. Photo
Further details
Note: Meiso Mizuhara states that Yangtsun, a branch office of Tientsin was opened on 10 Sept. 1900 as a field post office to help suppress the Boxer Uprising, and that there are about ten franked covers recorded during this period.

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