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Auction: 19009 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part 1
Lot: 1307

Wuhu
Covers
Internal Mail
1896 (4 Sept.) envelope registered to the Superintendent of Police in Amoy bearing 1896 ½c. on 1c. pair (one with variety straight foot of "2") and 5c. on 2c. tied by Wuhu China c.d.s. in blue-black, handstamped "Registered No.75" and a fine strike of Local Post Office Amoy arrival c.d.s. (13.9); there are further despatch and arrival c.d.s. on the reverse. Horizontal folds at foot and left. A rare and desirable combination of the registration handstamp with the surcharge stamps and addressed to another treaty port. Signed by Peter Holcombe. Photo

provenance:
Wei-liang Chow, November 1996


1896年9月4日蕪湖寄廈門員警所長掛號封, 貼1896年英文改值一分改半分兩枚, 其中左枚為平腳"2"變體票, 二分改五分一枚, 銷藍黑色蕪湖信局單圈英文日戳, 掛號戳的編號是手寫"75", 郵票下端蓋完整的9月13日廈門工部到達戳, 封背蓋有與封面相同的蕪湖信局戳及廈門工部到達戳各一枚; 信封底端有摺痕; 貼用加蓋改值票的實寄封本就罕見, 而此封以掛號信寄廈門, 當中更貼有平腳"2"變體票, 極為珍罕, 相信存世僅見. 具Peter Holcombe簽署._x000D_ _x000D_ 源流: 1996年11月周煒良.

Sold for
HK$19,000