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Auction: 19056 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part III
Lot: 5310

Nanking
Agency Mail
Japanese Post Office
1888 (Mar.) opened-out envelope to U.S.A. bearing Japan 5s. Koban tied by a part strike of the cork propeller postmark with "i.j.p.a./shanghai" c.d.s. (28.3) alongside partly overstruck by Yokohama (4.4) transit c.d.s.; the reverse with a superb strike of the large garter "local post agency nanking" postmark in grey-turquoise with Shanghai Local Post (20.3), San Francisco (22.4) and Columbus arrival (23.4) c.d.s.


A magnificent and highly desirable cover with such a fine strike of the Nanking postmark. Photo

provenance:
Richard Canman, December 1988

Wei-liang Chow, November 1896

Sold for
HK$55,000