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Post by WERT on Jun 7, 2021 20:42:10 GMT
I don't usually collect China stamps, but i have a few old ones. This cover to me is weird...Can't understand it..Help.
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jun 7, 2021 21:07:30 GMT
Hi, Robert ( WERT): Interesting cover, thanks for your post. I have no expertise with postal history, so not entirely sure the full story that it tells. One thing I could determine is that the sender's organization "The Voice of China" was once part of Radio-Free China and was established around 1940, during WWII. You can read more about the history here: boomcalifornia.org/2014/03/27/radio-free-china/Interestingly, what was once a broadcasting company that was trying to tell the world the truth about what was going on in China during heavy attacks by Japan during WWII still exists today but is now owned and controlled by the Chinese Government and goes by the name of China Radio International (CRI). |
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Post by JeffS on Jun 7, 2021 21:45:04 GMT
@wert = great cover in spite of condition
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WERT
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Post by WERT on Jun 7, 2021 22:22:56 GMT
Thanks for the replies..Here is the same type stamp with weird lines on it. Robert
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Post by vikingeck on Jun 7, 2021 22:27:50 GMT
Ok Robert WERT . What's to understand ? The cover is interesting but I don't find it weird. Chris, Beryllium Guy provides a link to something of the history of "The Voice of China" in the 1940s . a Radio station in Chungking which evidently had English speaking/American journalists . Probably Roy Dunlop was a journalist or radio engineer sending this registered letter to Montreal. I see his signature Roy Dunlop on the back flap and the radio call sign. "XGOY" The year is 1948 and the stamps are cancelled with Chinese Character date stamps. For convenience there is a similar English character datestamp on the front "CHUNGKING 21 July 48" which relates to the registration label. It is perfectly normal in many Asian Countries to find the stamps on the back of the letter, historically they were often used thus to seal the letter. You can see from the enormous number of "0000s" in the currency and surcharged stamps that China had galloping inflation in 1948 with the struggles between the Communists and Nationalists The letter has then gone to SHANGHAI and we have a handling transit datestamp for "SHANGHAI 23 July 48" Shanghai was the principal exit port from China so it would have gone by Air across the Pacific, reaching VANCOUVER 25 July 48 and on to MONTREAL where it is received 26 July . There is a second MONTREAL LCD Statn H ,office dispatch date stamp for delivery on 27th July (the date slug 27 inserted upside Down !) So from China to Canada half a world away in 6 days in 1948 is pretty good going . I hope that helps clarify things. " Postal History is not just Stamps Collecting" |
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Post by khj on Jun 7, 2021 23:26:25 GMT
Before going to Shanghai, the registered letter went from Chungking to Tung-chuen (modern spelling Dongchuan) on 21Jul1948.
Roy Dunlop was a Canadian journalist who became the Director of Foreign Programs for XGOY.
From Robert's last post, maybe he is referring to plate scratches or other lines? If so, the original pic of the cover is not high res enough for me to see that fine of a stamp detail.
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