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Translate Chinese On Cover W/Egyptian Censor

 
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Posted 05/02/2025   9:59 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Chevelle to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Request help in translating Chinese markings on this cover. Other comments regarding franking, routing, markings, etc. most welcome. Thanks in advance.



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Posted 05/03/2025   01:07 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add sb1815678 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
if you trust google translate
it says

Ask Paul
South Mirror Stand

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Posted 05/03/2025   03:19 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Prexie3c to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The five Chinese characters on the right refer to an address, loosely translated to "Nanyue Mojingtai".

In particular, the first two characters - "Nanyue" - refer to the 'Southern Mountain' - one of the Five Great Mountains of China (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount...f%20China.). This does correspond to the handwritten "nanyoh" on the cover (below the crossed-out "Hengyang").

Thus, I think it is the address of Rev and Mrs. Paul Abbotts written in Chinese.
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Posted 05/13/2025   12:54 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add blcjr to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Interesting cover! I cannot help with the Chinese (but Prexie3's post makes sense) but would be interested in generating further discussion of the cover. The "via Kumning" is likely not a postal clerk marking but a previous owner, who has mispelled "Kunming," a major location for US Air Forces presence in China at the time (1942). I am having a hard time making sense of this cover. The franking suggests 5 cents for US ground transpo to a point it could be carried overseas by air mail. But the 6 cent rate was only for US servicemen and women and would have APO markings, which this does not. The Cairo markings do suggest a North Atlantic crossing, on to India and then maybe into China at Chunking? But for 6 cents? I know some of you are much better at this than I am. I'd love to see some informed guesses as to what's going on with this cover.
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Posted 05/18/2025   4:46 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Chevelle to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I showed this cover several years ago to Ken Lawrence and with his permission this is what he commented about it:

"By the franking, the sender probably intended air mail service in the United States from Harrisburg to the foreign exchange office (6˘ per ounce) plus surface transport to China (correct was 3˘ per ounce surcharge, but often misinterpreted as requiring the full 5˘ UPU surface rate). However, by this time no surface transport to China was available, so it had to travel the entire distance by air."
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