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Auction: 19056 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part III
Lot: 5313

Nanking
Agency Mail
United States Post Office
1895 (May) envelope to Ohio "via San Francisco" bearing 1892-94 15c. Clay tied by a good strike of "u.s. postal agency/shanghai" duplex (4.5) and, on the reverse, a light strike of large garter Nanking agency postmark in blue, a light strike of Shanghai Local Post (2.5) and San Francisco transit (27.5); some minor peripheral soiling.


A very unusual triple rate franking used during the Sino-Japanese War. Photo

Sold for
HK$24,000