【Spring 2025 Sales Special Features: TIBET-SZECHUAN OVERLAND ROUTE】
1911 Lhasa (13 Sep) to Directorate General Post, Peking, Double-registered cover, f.w. scarce Tibet surch Coiling Dragon 1r + 2r, tied by Lhasa Dollar cds., alongside with AR mark and registered mark. Transit Batang (4 Oct), Tatsienlu (3 Dec). Arrived Peking (13 Feb). Only less than 10 covers taking Kham-Tsang Route are known to exist and all of them having the same address which were used to test the route. When the cover arrived at Peking, Qing government was already overthrown. The high denomination franking is also impressive as 1r and 2r were only issued 2400 and 960 stamps respectively.
【春拍拍品介紹 ：康藏郵路】
1911.9.13 拉薩寄北京郵政總局。雙掛號封，貼珍罕之西藏蟠龍1元 + 2元，銷拉薩大圓戳，旁鈐AR章及掛號章。10.4經巴塘，12.3經打箭爐。2.13抵北京。大清郵政康藏郵路封存世不足十件，均寄相同之收件人，顯然用於測試中轉時間。當此封到達北京時，清朝已被推翻。而高面額貼票1元及2元亦相當稀罕，分別僅發行2400枚及960枚。