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Auction: 19008 - The Lam Man Yin Collection of Small Dragons, Dowagers and 1897 Surcharges
Lot: 860

1897 New Currency Surcharges
Large Figures Surcharge, Narrow Setting
Third Printing
2c. on 2ca. dull yellow-green variety surcharge omitted in pair with normal, two pairs in a block of four tied on piece by a superb strike of Hokow Dollar dater of 1897 (25 May). Photo

provenance:
Christie's Robson Lowe auction, May 1987

Warred Kauder, November 1971


literature:
Chan Shiu Hon, The Empress Dowager Birthday Commemorative Issues and Surcharges, 1996 (illustrated page 138)


It is believed that tese errors were cancelled privately by de Villard. This post office did not open until 12 October 1901


1897年慈禧壽辰紀念三版洋銀貳分蓋於貳分橫雙連票兩組,漏加蓋變體,兩組連票銷有一枚完整河口1897年5月25日大圓日戳。_x000D_ _x000D_ 河口郵政局於1901年10月12日始收寄公眾郵件,此票相信為費拉爾 (Villard) 私蓋

Sold for
HK$170,000