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Auction: 16012 - Meiso Mizuhara, The Exhibition Collections, The Chinese Customs Post
Lot: 1508

China
Forerunner Period
Custom House, Shanghai
1873 (13 Mar.) opened out envelope to Madame G. Vapereau in Paris bearing, on the flap, a fine strike of the "customs house/shanghai/paid" dated double oval in red, sent via the British Post Office and bearing Hong Kong 1863-71 6c. and 30c. (applied over the edge of the envelope) tied by a single strike of "S1" in turquoise-blue with the despatch c.d.s. on the reverse, with Hong Kong (18.3), Montauban (28.4) where the letter was redirected to Paris, with other appropriate transit and arrival marks including diminuative "7/11" inspector's mark. Some light creasing at left.


This is the sixth cover of the seventeen recorded.

provenance: Robson Lowe auction, March 1974

Ryohei Ishikawa, December 1980


The list of recorded covers

1 1872 (22 Feb.) — lot 1507

2 1872 (25 May) to MAdame Louis Garnier, Paris

3 1872 (29 June) bearing US adhesives to Chicago

4 1872 (14 Nov.) to Monsieur G. Vapereau, Paris

5 1872 (12 Dec.) to MAdame G. Vapereau, Paris

6 1873 (13 Mar.) — lot 1508

7 1873 (17 May) bearing HK adhesives to Paris

8 1873 (17 June) bearng HK adhesives to London

9 1873 (21 June) to Monsieur G. Vapereau, Paris

10 1873 (26 July) to Madame L. Garnier, Paris

11 1874 (5 Sept.) — lot 1509

12 1874 (15 Oct.) to Madamoiselle H. Vapereau, Paris

13 1875 (15 Mar.) bearing US adhesived to Massachusetts, struck in blue

14 1875 (25 Mar.) bearing HK adhesives

15 1875 (17 May) bearing HK adhesives

16 1875 (29 May) to Madame Louise Garnier, Paris

17 1875 (5 July) incoming letter from Ireland to Peking

Sold for
HK$260,000