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Auction: 16012 - Meiso Mizuhara, The Exhibition Collections, The Chinese Customs Post
Lot: 1602

China
1878-83 The Large Dragon Issue
3 Candareens
1879 (3 Oct.) envelope to Shanghai "Pr 'Kiangfoo'" bearing 3ca. scarlet-red [11] with left margin cancelled by a fine strike of "customs/chinkiang" c.d.s. with the Shanghai arrival for the following day in the lower left corner; some minor ageing. An attractive and early cover payinh the short-lived 3ca. rate

provenance: Allen Gokson, 1944


literature: James Whang, The Large Dragon Covers, number 41


The 3 candareen rate was used in 1878 and 1879. Richard Pratt recorded twenty one of these 3ca. covers, including fourteen from the Henry Everall collection


For other 3ca. covers from this period, please see lots 1570 and 1606

Sold for
HK$300,000