alainfang

“A.V.2"是甚麼戳？甚麼意思？
edwardtin 发表于 2010-8-30 06:43

好像是某地一个中转戳


Amazing airmail usage from Changsha paying the $9.50 rate to Stavanger, apparently mailed before the major battle there with the invading Japanese forces. Chinese dater, but the cover was routed via Kweilin out through Hong Kong on September 5, 1941 (possibly December 5?), where the letter received a Hong Kong censor label and boxed handstamp "103". Heifetz type "5a" AV2 air transit handstamp applied there at this point as well. A Par Avion jusqu'a boxed directional marking was possibly added by the Hong Kong post office with a notation for transmission via Lisbon (in manuscript). The letter has a typewritten endorsement "Air-Mail via Pacific-U.S.A. (Trans?)Atlantic", but in any case was directed through India where the letter was again censored. Since it was impossible to for the airmail service to continue to Norway by this time, boxed "Retour" and "Service Suspended Returned to Sender" handstamps were applied too. There is a February 12, 1942 Canton transit on the way back, and a Changsha bilingual cancel on 24.5.81 (return or outward?). Sender was a member of the N.M.S. or Norwegian Missionary Society, I presume, that originated in Stavanger. There is another Chinese cancel that I cannot decipher. For the specialist in World War 2 censor, airmail and OAT and AV2 postal history.