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Shensi Air 1 Dr. Sun Yat-sen Issue Surcharged as Air Mail Unit Postage Stamp with the Overprinted Character "Shen" (1949)

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Stamp SN CE01
Stamp Name Shensi Air 1 Dr. Sun Yat-sen Issue Surcharged as Air Mail Unit Postage Stamp with the Overprinted Character "Shen" (1949)
Stamp Cat Standard Air Mail Stamps
Stamp Cat Chiefs Of State, Emblems
Issue date 1949-05-01
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  The original stamps overprinted as air mail unit postage stamps are those of $7,000 denomination of Dr. Sun Yat-sen issue of the second Shanghai Dah Tung Print. The characters〝國內航空郵資已付〞(domestic air mail postage paid) in No. 5 Regular Writing characters appear in two vertical lines in black, between which the character〝陝〞(Shen-abbreviation for Shensi Province) was overprinted in brackets at the bottom.