Peoples Republic Of China - East China Cover

Looking for some help reading this postmark on a cover in my collection. I think this is from 1949, but I am not sure. Can anyone help me with the year and city?

Thanks,
Linus




This cover has 30 copies of PRC East China Scott #5L24 - the $5 brown issue of April 1949 adding up to $150 in postage to the Phillipines...

What shocks me is that the sheet didn't get bent whatsoever it seems. I have nothing more to add. A gorgeous cover nonetheless

I was in Chicago for a month of computer training, and on the weekend, I went to a large coin show in Countryside, Illinois. There were probably 80 dealers, but only 2 or 3 had stamps to sell. I bought a worldwide collection on homemade pages, for around $15 or so, that had this cover and a few others stuffed in the back of the book. This cover was rough, with the top row of stamps all wadded up. I meticulously dampened and pressed the top row of stamps flat myself. The perfs are separated at the top, but amazingly, there were no chunks missing from any of the stamps. In my eyes, I think it looks good, it's a survivor.

I feel like it's my cover, and while it's in my care, it is going to look like this. When I pass on and the next owner possesses it, he can bend and wrinkle that top row all he wants. But that's not me.

Linus

Another nice one with a full backstory besides(!)

Different style cancel from what you showed last time. This has the province at top, Zhejiang/Chekiang. Date is 1949 June 13. Town/city is at bottom; somebody will probably be able ID this before I can. Use the cancels on the block of stamps to figure out the characters.

Thanks a million hy-brasil. The province and date is good enough. You have been very kind to answer my questions and reply to my posts. Certain covers I can remember like it was yesterday, where I bought it and the circumstances. I bought this one from a young man who was late setting up his table, very disorganized, and the crates of stamp albums he was selling were right out of his car, freezing cold and damp. I bought 2 small albums from him, so I had something to work on while in the training center "barracks."

You like these stories?? I got a million of them. Ha!

Linus

Yes, keep the covers and tales that go with them coming. The hunt for stamps and covers is a big part of the philatelic picture in my view. More entertaining and better than me finding a stored-away cover and wondering "Where did this come from???".

That coin show was the only show that paid me 25 cents to attend. The Illinois state quarter coin had just been released and they gave them out in a plastic holder at the door for free.

I also found this sheet in the back of that same album. It is the back of a cover glued to a piece of paper from the same Chinese inflation period after the war.
You save them the way you find them.

Linus