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Auction: 20188 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - e-Auction
Lot: 54

Chungking
Postal Stationery
1895 Two Candareens - International Mail
1896 (10 Mar.) 2ca. card to Worcester bearing a fine strike of the Chungking oblong datestamp, "chungking l.p.o. shanghai agency" c.d.s. (27.3) applied in Shanghai, bearing pair of Hong Kong 2c. carmine cancelled by British Post Office Shanghai c.d.s. (27.3) and Hong Kong transit (31.3). The message is written by Alacia Little. There are some minor creases or wrinkles to the right, which affect the Hong Kong adhesives which pay the 4c. international post card rate. Scarce international use

provenance:
Major Richard Pratt, January 2008

Elling O. Eide, November 2014

Estimate

Starting price
HK$35000