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Auction: 16012 - Meiso Mizuhara, The Exhibition Collections, The Chinese Customs Post
Lot: 1743

China
1897 Revenue Surcharges
Covers
Japanese Post Office
1898 (18 Jan.) opened-out envelope to U.S.A. bearing 1c. on 3c. strip of four [6-10] with I.C.P. 10c. tied by Tangshan Post Office c.d.s. with Japan Koban 10s. alongside tied by "shanghai/j.p.o." c.d.s. with Tientsin Dollar chop (24.1) at foot; an array of backstamps with Shanghai Dollar chop (3.2), Yokohama (14.2), San Francisco and San Diego arrival (2.3). A very fine and scarce cover paying the 10c. international rate with the 4c. winter service surcharge.


This is the only overseas cover sent from Tangshan and one of only two covers recorded from Tangshan.


A very important Revenue Surcharge cover

literature: The Illustrated Covers ... of Revenue Surcharges, Benjamin Y.K. Hwa, 2003 (page 332)

Sold for
HK$650,000