Lot 10154 – ULYASUTAI: 1916 Native cover sent registered to Pe

ULYASUTAI: 1916 Native cover sent registered to Peking, franked with five 1916-17 10k on 7k blue paying double the 15k internal rate plus 20k registration fee, tied by Ulyasutai 22.8.17 type 2 cds, with registration label adjacent (Hellrigl type 2b rated RR), with Peking and Manchuli transits, fine and very rare, only six known covers from this Office. Note: Taken by mounted courier to Khatkhyl, thence by Russian steamer across Lake Koso-Gol to Khanginsk, to the frontier post at Mondy and from there into the Russian rail network at Irkutsk for transmission by Trans-Siberian line to Chinese P.O. at Manchuli. Recorded in the British Journal of Russian Philately 37 (1965) Provenance: Ex Holcombe