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Auction: 19056 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part III
Lot: 5088

Ichang
Covers
International Mail
British Post Office: 1895 (11 Jan.) piece of newspaper wrapper to London bearing ½ca. orange-brown cancelled by the boxed Ichang datestamp in black showing the date error "94" for "95", with Hong Kong 2c. carmine tied by a fine strike of Shanghai c.d.s. (2.2). A good piece and one of a group of newspaper wrappers sent out on this day. Photo

provenance:
Richard Canman, December 1988

Estimate
HK$3,000 to HK$5,000