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Auction: 11025 - Dr. Robert Towers Collection of British Empire
Lot: 350

Hong Kong Treaty Ports Tientsin 1899 (May and June) envelopes ex the same correspondence to England, both bearing 1891 10c. purple on red cancelled by framed "i.p.o." and with Tientsin c.d.s. alongside, both in blue, and with the stamps subsequently cancelled at Shanghai in transit, the reverse bearing China 5c. pink or 10c. green cancelled with pa kua in blue and with Shanghai French P.O. and arrival c.d.s.; one a little creased, otherwise sound Estimate £ 250-300

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