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Auction: 16012 - Meiso Mizuhara, The Exhibition Collections, The Chinese Customs Post
Lot: 1538

China
1878-83 The Large Dragon Issue
1883 Thick Paper
1ca. bright green [9], 3ca. red [13] and 5ca. chrome-yellow [3], part to large part original gum. The colours are extremely fresh, the 5ca. is particularly fine and is an exquisite example of this bright shade

This supply of paper was similar to that of the first printings and the sheet format of five rows of five stamps was sesumed, except for the 3 candareens stamps which were printed in smaller sheets as some of the clichês had become rather worn



The numbers printed are recorded as follows

Thin Paper and Wide Setting

1ca. 89,011

3ca. 288,828

5ca. 137,856



Thick Papaer

1ca. 117,475

3ca. 269,040

5ca. 101,745

Sold for
HK$18,000