Previous Lot Next Lot

Auction: 19034 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part II
Lot: 2132

Swatow
Shanghai Agency
Incoming Mail
1893 (5 Nov.) Shanghai "postage paid 1 cent" envelope (120x82mm) addressed to the British Consul in Swatow and cancelled by Shanghai Local Post c.d.s. in blue, the reverse with a further strike of the Shanghai c.d.s. with a fair strike of the double oval "shanghai l.p.o./swatow agency" in purple with manuscript date "11/11/93". Some light soiling.

This is believed to be the earliest use of this postmark. Photo

provenance:
Wei-liang Chow, November 1996


1893年11月5日上海寄汕頭英國領事收"壹仙郵費已付" 郵資封(120X82mm)， 銷藍色上海工部日戳， 封背蓋另一相同的上海工部日戳， 旁有手寫日期11月11日的模糊紫色英文汕頭代辦所 (Shanghai L.P.O. / Swatow Agency)戳. 品相中上. 源流: 1996年11月周煒良.

Sold for
HK$35,000