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Auction: 19056 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part III
Lot: 5098

Hankow
The Agency of the Shanghai Local Post
1896 (15 Dec.) Shanghai "postage paid 1 cent" opened-out stationery envelope (type E1c) addressed to Shanghai bearing, on the reverse, Hankow Local Post despatch c.d.s. along with the postman's delivery characters and there is a very faint strike of the Shanghai Local Post c.d.s. (18.12) on the address side; some light soiling on the reverse.


An unusual and scarce cover used some three and a half years after the introduction of Hankow's own postage stamps. Photo

provenance:
Charles Goodwyn, November 2001

Estimate
HK$8,000 to HK$10,000