QUASI OFFICIAL MERCHANTS POST: 1871 Incoming 10k postal stationery envelope (1863 issue) sent to the Border Commissar at Kyakhta on the Siberia / Mongolia border for transmission to a member of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission at Peking, placed on Postal Wagon No.11-12 (Kiev-Nizhnii-Novgorod), then taken by Merchants’ Post across Mongolia to Peking, received 10.8.71 (ms note) Note: The Russian Merchants’ (or Mongolian) Post was a private enterprise under the protection of the Russian Government initiated in 1865, about 10 years before the official Russian Post was established in Mongolia and China. A charge for its service was levied on incoming mail, payable by the recipient. From January 1872 such mail received the standard “Doplatit” (to pay) hs. Dealer
David Feldman S. A. Geneva Auction
Minimum Bid:
1800.00 EUR (via Philasearch.com: David Feldman - Belgium and Russian Post Offices in the Chinese Empire - item 9346-A175-10001)
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