The 2024 Winter Auction - Sale 344 - Day 3

1949 (Dec 3) Kwangsi Nanning airmail to Taipei cover,franked on reverse Kwangsi 5c Silver Yuan x 9, total value 45c Silver Yuan, matching the domestic airmail double registered postage, tied by Nanning cds., along with Taiwan, Taipei arrival cds. In early December 1949, PLA had already taken over Kwangtung and Kwangsi. The letter was probably sent from Nanning to Hong Kong by service. However, due to the insurrection of the two KMT aviation companies, domestic airmail service from Hong Kong to Taiwan was not available. This letter was most likely sent by surface to Taipei. It is unthinkable that the post offices in Nanning were business as unusal on the day before liberation. Nanning was liberated on Dec 4. This is a post-liberation usage example of Silver Yuan.

1949年12月3日廣西南寧寄臺北航空封，背面貼桂區銀元5分票9枚，合45分銀圓，符合國內雙掛號航空郵資，銷南寧日戳，旁蓋台灣臺北到達戳。49年12月上旬，解放軍已接管廣東和廣西，南寧和廣州機場也不再運營。此信應是寄到香港後，發現由於「兩航起義」，寄台灣的航郵業務已停用，最終是通過水陸路寄往臺北。很難想像在解放後，南寧郵局仍然營運如常。南寧於12月4日已解放，此乃解放後沿用銀圓票的例子。