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Auction: 19034 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part II
Lot: 2010

Foochow
Shanghai Agency
1894 (July) small opened-out envelope to Shanghai ”per S.S. Pock Sang” bearing a good strike of the boxed “paid” handstamp in red overstruck by the bilingual “local post agency/foochow” in bluish, the reverse with a fair strike of the Shanghai Local Post c.d.s. (6.7) and postman's delivery characters in blue crayon. A good example of one of the Paid covers. Photo

provenance:
'Ming', March 1987


1894年7月福州寄上海無貼郵票封, 上書有"per S.S. Pock Sang"字句, 蓋紅色框型"PAID"戳, 上銷藍色福州書信舘雙語無日期戳, 封背蓋7月6日上海工部到達戳, 另旁有郵務員藍色手寫記事, 蓋用"PAID"戳的良好實寄封.

Sold for
HK$16,000