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Auction: 19056 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part III
Lot: 5256

Wuhu
Official Mail
1896 (c.) opened-out envelope registered to Foochow bearing a slightly worn strike pf the boxed "PAID" handstamp in black, with straight-line "Registered No. 9", red crayon cross for registration and a complete red wax seal with a superb impression of "local post/wuhu china"; there is a faint and indistinct strike of Shanghai Local Post c.d.s. and the cover has been initialled just below the Paid handstamp.


A rare and desirable out-port cover. Photo

provenance:
Clarke Braly, May, 1991

Sold for
HK$7,500