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Auction: 11005 - The Mizhuhara Collection of Mongolian Stamps
Lot: 1508

Mongolia Russian Post Office Urga Type III c.d.s. 1895 (18 Dec.) red band cover to Peking (12.7) bearing, on the reverse, ten 1k. Russian Arms (two missing) plus two more on address side, paying the double rate, well tied by the single-ring c.d.s. and showing boxed Dun-Fu-Yu/Peking" handstamp in red alongside. This is the earliest recorded cover bearing this postmark Estimate HK$ 6,000-8,000 provenance: E.M. Tolman, November 1985

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HK$80,000