Auction #39

Russia & Area. Russia Offices in China. CENSURED Registered envelope with Italian advertising sent from Shanghai on 5/5/1915 to Spezia Italy, franked with 20kp blue & red stamp overprinted "КИТАЙ" (Michel n 10y) cancelled by "SHANGHAI POSTE RUSSE * * b" with label for registered mail N 569 only in Russian. Sent before the entry into the war of Italy (May 24), arrived on 10/6/1915 after passed by the Censorship Office of Bologna which affixed its seal "BOLOGNA Posta Estera". On the back handwritten label of the Russian Censorship Control Office. ATTRACTIVE AND INTERESTING COVER.