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Auction: 20188 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - e-Auction
Lot: 33

Chungking
1894 Third Issue
Covers - International
1896 (2 Nov.) envelope to India (flap missing) bearing 8ca. orange tied by a fine strike of Chungking oval datestamp in violet with pair of Hong Kong 5c. blue alongside tied by Shanghai c.d.s. (16.11) and, on the reverse, Hong Kong (24.11), Tuticorin (8.12) and Dinapore (12.12) c.d.s.; there is a vertical crease which runs between the two Hong Kong adhesives. A good cover paying the correct rate

provenance:
Saul Newbury, February 1962

Estimate

Starting price
HK$30000