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Auction: 13008 - The Mizuhara Collection of Korean Stamps
Lot: 1892

Korea
1903 Imperial Falcon Issue
China Eastern Railway
1904 (21 Jan.) picture postcard to Paris, "Via Transsiberien et Port Arthur" bearing Falcon 1ch. and 5ch. tied by indistinct domestic bisected circle datestamp, with Chemulpo and Seoul (25.1) and a very good strike of the Postal Wagon No.262, serial number "8" c.d.s.; a few minor tone spots but dated after the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war and thought to be the last mailing carried on the Trans-Siberian Railway

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HK$13,000