Auction: 11025 - Dr. Robert Towers Collection of British Empire
Lot: 347
Hong Kong Treaty Ports Swatow 1880 (23 Mar.) envelope "By first mail" to Rugby, bearing 1863-71 2c. brown (wing-margin) and 8c. orange sharing fine "S2" and with equally fine "swatow" c.d.s. alongside, light Hong Kong (24.3) and arrival (29.4) on reverse; an attractive franking of the newly introduced 10c. rate. Fine and attractive. Photo Estimate £ 1,500-2,000
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