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Auction: 11025 - Dr. Robert Towers Collection of British Empire
Lot: 345

Hong Kong Treaty Ports Swatow 1879 (21 July) envelope "By first mail" to Rugby, bearing 1863-71 4c. grey and 8c. pale dull orange sharing fine "S2" obliterator and showing superb "swatow" c.d.s. alongside, the reverse with Hong Kong (22.7), Hong Kong Too Late (22.7, a very late date) and arrival (8.9) c.d.s.; fine and rare. Photo Estimate £ 2,500-3,000 Note: This cover, and the two that follow, have not been previously recorded, and bring to forty-eight the number of "S2" covers recorded by us

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