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Auction: 16012 - Meiso Mizuhara, The Exhibition Collections, The Chinese Customs Post
Lot: 1730

China
1897 Revenue Surcharges
Small Two Cent Surcharge Errors
2c. on 3c. red [7] variety surcharge double; part to large part original gum showing the wide top and bottom margins from the upper row. A fresh example on white paper. A rare stamp with only twenty examples sold. S.G. 93b, £100,000; Chan 84q

provenance: Robert C.H. Lee, November 1963

Warren G. Kauder, November 1971



literature: The Revenue Surcharges of China 1897, volume 1, 1984; illustrated (page 18)



This error was made on the top two rows on sheet "1000", all twenty stamps have been identified

Sold for
HK$600,000