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Auction: 19056 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part III
Lot: 5173

Kewkiang
Forerunner Mail
1894 (7 May) envelope from Ralph Irish to his father in South Dakota, U.S.A. bearing Japan Koban 5s. tied by a fine strike of "i.j.p.o. shanghai/meiji 27" c.d.s. (12.5) and, on the reverse, Shanghai Local Post (10.5), Yokohama (17.5), San Francisco (4.6) and Fort Meade (9.6) c.d.s.


A rare cover using the Shanghai postal service from Kewkiang via the Japanese Post Office; sent twenty four days before the opening of the Kewkiang Local Post. Photo

Sold for
HK$24,000