The 2024 Winter Auction - Sale 344 - Day 3

1950 (Jan 23) Kunming to Kaifeng Silver Yuan cover,f.w. Domestic Ordinary Unit Stamp, matching the domestic ordinary postage. Kunming was liberated on 1949 Dec 9. This is a post-liberation usage example of Silver Yuan. There are only four recorded Silver Yuan postage covers sent from Yunnan liberated area to North China.

1950年1月23日雲南昆明寄開封銀圓封，貼平信單位票銀圓一枚，符合當時國內平信郵資。昆明於1949年12月9日已解放，此乃解放後沿用銀圓票的例子。從雲南解放區寄往華北的銀元實寄封，存世不足四件。