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Auction: 16012 - Meiso Mizuhara, The Exhibition Collections, The Chinese Customs Post
Lot: 1739

China
1897 Revenue Surcharges
Internal Covers
1897 (23 Aug.) red band envelope to Canton bearing, on the reverse, Large Figures 2c. with Dowager Small Figures 8c. on 6ca. pair tied by Hankow Dollar chop with faint Canton Dollar chop alongside (1.9) and a fine strike of straight-line Postage Already Paid in Hankow struck in red. A high franking internal cover

literature: The Illustrated Covers ... of Revenue Surcharges, Benjamin Y.K. Hwa, 2003 (page 252)

Sold for
HK$120,000