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Auction: 19056 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - Part III
Lot: 5437

Chinkiang
Postal Stationery
1894 1c. Brown Card
International Mail: 1894 (18 Nov.) 1c. card to U.S.A. cancelled by a fine strike of the 29mm double-circle c.d.s. with Hong Kong 2c. carmine (2) tied by British Post Office Shanghae c.d.s. (22.11), with faint Shanghai Local Post (20.11), Yokohama (29.11) and San Francisco (14.12) c.d.s.. Some light ageing. Pays the 4c. international postcard rate.


A rare and desirable card sent in secret via Japan during the Sino-Japanese War. Photo

provenance:
Elling O. Eide, January 2014

Sold for
HK$26,000