Lot 81557 – 1923 Hankow to Germany Officially Sealed registered envelope

1923 (Sep 8) large registered envelope from Hankow to Hamburg franked on reverse with Second Peking Junks 1c and 3c (13) tied bilingual cds, transiting in Shanghai (11 Sep) where on 12th seven green Officially Sealed labels applied and cancelled, arriving in Germany at Hannover in a further deteriorating condition and twelve Postamt Hannover 1 seals added with appropriate violet handstamps, sent by train to Hamburg on 24.10, arriving the following day. One 3c Junk badly damaged with part missing, other slight faults, envelope folded in half through two 3c and creasing to some Chinese labels, a spectacular cover with sealing labels of two countries.