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Auction: 16013 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 2394

Mongolia
Russian Post Office
Kobdo
1917 (26 Oct.) red band cover registered to Peking via Harbin and bearing, on the reverse, Russian address label printed in black on white with Russian Arms 5k. and 70k. tied by fine strikes of the Kobdo type 1b c.d.s. with a further, superb, strike struck at right. With Kobdo registration label "No. 268", with Peking bilingual c.d.s. (7.12) and lunar cancel (8.12), the reverse with Russian Post Office Peking c.d.s. (26.11). There is some aging around the edge of the envelope, which is fairly typical of these covers. An exceptionally rare and desirable cover bearing this high value franking, dramatically enhanced but the magnificent strike of the rare Kobdo despatch c.d.s.


This is believed to be the best of the six Kobdo covers recorded. Photo

provenance: M.F.Shooliack



The Postal History of Mongolia by Wolfgang Hellrigl list four covers from Kobdo:

1916 (26 Jan.) bearing a 30k. franking

1917 (14 June) to Peking bearing 10k. (3) with type 1a. c.d.s.

1917 (2 Sept.) to Peking beaing 3k., 5k., 7k. and 10k. on 7k. (2) with type 1a c.d.s

1918 (28 Jan.) to Peking bearing 3k., 10k. on 7k. (5) and 15k. (3) bearing type 1b c.d.s. though most values are pen cancelled



Recently recorded

1917 (16 Sept.) to Peking bearing 10k. (3) with type 1a c.d.s.

Estimate
HK$2,500,000 to HK$3,000,000