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Auction: 16012 - Meiso Mizuhara, The Exhibition Collections, The Chinese Customs Post
Lot: 1608

China
1878-83 The Large Dragon Issue
3 Candareens, Incoming Mail
1882 (21 June) envelope from Tokyo to the Japanese Legation in Peking bearing 3ca. deep red [18] tied by Tientsin seal type B with Tokyo c.d.s. at left, the sender's seal in orange-vermilion and straight-line handstamp in red alongside the adhesive; the reverse with "customs/tientsin"(4.7) c.d.s.; unfortunately the Japanese adhesives have been cut off. Shows the address handstamp struck in red


An appealing and very desirable incoming cover paying the 3ca. internal rate

literature: The Revenue Surcharges China 1897, vol. II (illustrated page 920)

James Whang, The Large Dragon Covers, number 146


This is the only recorded incoming Japanese-Chinese combination. Additionally, incoming covers with Large Dragon stamps affixed in Tientsin are rare; James Whang recorded only two such covers

Sold for
HK$280,000