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Auction: 16012 - Meiso Mizuhara, The Exhibition Collections, The Chinese Customs Post
Lot: 1568

China
1878-83 The Large Dragon Issue
1 Candareen, Setting I
1ca. deep green in a block of twenty [6-25], with full original gum and both side margins; some signs of light gum aging.


The printing is not well defined and this is an example of the slightly 'watery' ink which is typical of this shade. A scarce block in this shade

provenance: E.H. Finnegan, October 1937

Sold for
HK$160,000