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Auction: 19056 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part III
Lot: 5043

Ichang
Opening of Ichang Post Office
Use of Chungking Stamps
1895 (12 Jan.) neat envelope to Baron Gunzburg in Shanghai bearing, on the reverse, Chungking third issue 2c. rose-red with top margin which is tied by a neat strike of the boxed Ichang datestamp with "2" written in manuscript (note the error of date "94" for "95"), with postman's delivery characters in pencil and a very faint strike of Shanghai Local Post c.d.s. (18.1) in blue; the address side with a further strike of the boxed datestamp but with the yeardate corrected in manuscript.


A delightful and scarce forerunner cover. Photo

Sold for
HK$5,200