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Auction: 18051 - The Yen Boon Swee Collection of Straits Settlements Queen Victoria Postal Stationery
Lot: 1282A

Straits Settlements Queen Victoria Postal Stationery
Registered Envelopes
5c. size F (HG 1)
1901 (1 Aug) 5c. blue registered envelope from Tsingtau to Breslau, Germany, uprated with 3c. brown and 4c. on 5c. carmine in combination with Japan 2s. rose and German Kiautschou 3pf. and 5pf., cancelled by "tsingtau/kiautschou" c.d.s. and additionally by "deutsche seepost/linie/hamburg/sudamerika" oval d.s. (probably ship from South American run used as troopship to China during Boxer emergency) some minor foxing. Scarce. Photo

Sold for
SG$800