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Auction: 19009 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part 1
Lot: 1354

Chinkiang
The Establishment of the Post Office
1894 de Villard's hand-drawn designs of the postal markings in black and red ink indicating that two be made of brass "to be cut here", datestamp with changeable date "to be got out from England" and a double oval datestamp "to be made of rubber date to be changeable, to be made here". There are a couple of folding creases. An iconic and highly desirable piece of Chinkiang philatelic history. Photo

provenance:
Charles Dougan, November 1997


1894年費拉爾設計並以黑色及紅色手繪的鎮江書信館郵戳信函, 時間應為4月16日, 該等戳向上海的凱利瓦許公司訂製, 其中第1,2及4項後來配合郵票發行首日使用, 第3項橢圓形戳則未被採用, 此頁乃是最早也是僅存唯一關於鎮江書信館郵戳的設計原件, 十分珍罕._x000D_ _x000D_ 源流: 1997年11月Charles Dougan.

Estimate
HK$40,000 to HK$50,000