The 2024 Winter Auction - Sale 344 - Day 3

1949 (Nov 5) Canton to Taipei Silver Yuan cover, arrived on 1950 (Nov 30),f.w. Kwangtung 15c x 1, matching domestic airmail postage, tied by Canton cds., with Taipei arrival cds. on reverse. Canton was liberated on 1949 (Oct 14). This is the last post-liberation usage example of Silver Yuan and is the cover took longest time (391 days) to Taiwan. Hard to check what happened to this cover. We can only assume that it was mislaid in Canton post office and was found at a much later date before delivery to Taiwan.

1949年11月5日廣州寄臺北銀圓封，1950年11月30日抵達臺北，單貼廣東銀圓15分票，符合國內航空郵資，銷廣州日戳，背面有臺北到達戳。廣州於1949年10月14日已解放，此乃解放後廣州最後使用的銀元郵資信函的例子，也是寄遞到台灣的最長時間（391天）。很難說此信到底發生了什麼事。只能假設它被誤放在了廣州郵局，並且在寄往台灣之前，發現已是很晚。