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Auction: 19034 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part II
Lot: 2063

Amoy
Agency of the Shanghai Local Post
Envelopes
1894 (4 Oct.) 5c. Jubilee stationery envelope registered to a lieutenant on S.S. 'Monocacy' in Shanghai with additional 1893 ½c. pair cancelled by fine strikes of the Local Post Agency code "A" c.d.s. in bluish black with a good strike of the boxed registered handstamp in red, with ink number "27", alongside. Redirected to Tientsin with Shanghai Local Post c.d.s. (9.10) in blue on the reverse. Without further postmarks suggesting it was carried privately to its final destination. Horizontal fold and with red wax seal on the reverse.

A fine and desirable registered cover paying 1c. postage and 5c. registration and is thought to be the only Jubilee cover used in Amoy

provenance:
Richard Canman, December 1988


1894年10月4日上海書信館金禧開埠五分郵資掛號封寄上海， 加貼1893年半分票两枚， 銷藍色 "A" 字上海工部廈門代辦日戳， 左上端蓋紅色掛號截， 手寫編號"27"， 此封後來因故改寄天津， 於封背蓋藍色10月9日上海工部日戳， 此外沒皇其他郵戳， 故可能由私人携往最後目的地. 封有些摺痕及帶紅色火漆. 本封為存世唯一使用金禧開埠紀念加蓋"Jubilee"市徽圖郵票郵資封. 源流: 1988年12月Richard Canman.

Sold for
HK$15,000