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Auction: 16012 - Meiso Mizuhara, The Exhibition Collections, The Chinese Customs Post
Lot: 1685

China
1878-83 The Large Dragon Issue
Foreign Post Office Covers
Japanese Post Office
1881 (19 Jan.) opened-out envelope to U.S.A. bearing, on the reverse, 3ca. light red [8] and [9?] tied by a single strike of Peking seal in blue with "i.g. of customs/peking" despatch c.d.s. alongside, with Tientsin (20.1) and Shanghai (2.2) Customs c.d.s. Sent through the Japanese Post Office bearing 5s. Koban (2) tied by cork 'cross road' obliterators with "i.j. postal agency/shanghai" c.d.s. and Yokohama (11.2) transit, additional U.S. postmarks are on the reverse.


A double rate cover paying the internal rate; the Japanese stamps affixed at despatch

provenance: Saul Newbury, February 1962

C.S. Tsou


literature: James Whang Large Dragon covers, number 90

Sold for
HK$480,000