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Auction: 19056 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part III
Lot: 5319

Nanking
Local Post
Japanese Post Office
1896 (1 Mar.) opened-out envelope to Ohio "via S. Francisco" bearing Japan 1894 Silver Wedding 5s. ultramarine (small tear) just tied by an indistinct strike of the I.J.P.A. Shanghai c.d.s. with a good strike of "nanking local post" bilingual oval datestamp in purple and, on the reverse, Shanghai Local Post, Yokohama (8.3) and San Francisco (27.3) c.d.s. Photo

provenance:
Richard Canman, December 1988

Estimate
HK$20,000 to HK$24,000