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Auction: 19056 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part III
Lot: 5040

Chungking
Postal Stationery
1896 One Candareen on Two Candareens
1896 (26 June) 1ca. on 2ca. card to Shanghai cancelled by a good strike of the Chungking boxed datestamp in purple with the Ichang boxed datestamp (4.7) and Hankow Local Post c.d.s. (9.7) c.d.s. in black and, on the reverse, Shanghai Local Post c.d.s. (12.7). The message is written in Chinese which is unusual for these cards. Clean and fine. Photo

provenance:
Elling O. Eide, January 2014

Sold for
HK$9,000