Autumn Auction

1900 7k Letter-card uprated 3k and 7k 'Kitai' issue to pay registered rate from PEKING to France, cancelled with improvised date-stamp with date completed by hand 7 XI 1900. Primitive white registration label. Transit marks at PORT ARTHUR, Russian and Chinese P.O.s CHEFOO, and SHANGHAI, HONGKONG and French transit marks.
The Russian P.O. in Peking lost its circular date-stamp during the siege of the Legations in 1900 and Emergency Cancellers were improvised locally in two types (Peking Types 5 and 9 of Tchlinghirian and Stephen).
Latest known use of Peking Emergency Canceller Type 9 and only known showing loss of frame.
Illustrated and described "British Journal of Russian Philately", No. 32 (1963)