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Auction: 19009 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part 1
Lot: 1299

Wuhu
Covers
Internal Mail
1894 (8 Dec.) Guinzberg envelope to Shanghai bearing 1c. light brown, perf.12¼ of the first printing, tied by "wuhu/local post" c.d.s. in blue, a further, superb strike on the reverse along with Shanghai Local Post arrival (7.12) in bluish and the postman's delivery characters in pencil. The stamp just goes over the edge of the cover, otherwise very fine. Photo

provenance:
Wei-liang Chow, November 1996


1894年12月8日蕪湖寄上海封, 貼第一版一分棕色票, 齒孔12¼, 銷藍色蕪湖工部日戳, 另一枚相同的郵戳在封背, 另一旁有12月7日藍色上海工部到達戳及郵差手寫記錄; 保存完好, 美品._x000D_ _x000D_ 源流: 1996年11月周煒良.

Sold for
HK$4,000