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1900 (15 Sep) registered cover franked with 2x10k dark blue, sent from Troitskosavsk on the Mongolian border, showing very late use of the provisional registration label (sent by Mary Rodgers Larson to her mother in Albany. Larson and her husband Frans were working as missionaries in Kalgan, China, when they had to flee the Boxer Rebellion on 11 June 1900. They crossed the Gobi Desert and in August reached northern Mongolia where Frans obtained a job at a gold mine to pay for a trip to Albany. Frans transported gold to Kyakhta (Troitskosavsk) on the Russian border twice a month, at which time letters were mailed to Mary's parents)
Estimate: $250