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Auction: 20188 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - e-Auction
Lot: 289

Nanking
Agency Mail
Japanese Post Office
1891 (28 Dec.) Japan 2s. international postal stationery card to U.S.A., written from Nanking and cancelled by Nagasaki (4.1) c.d.s. and the small triangular "na/ship" paquebot handstamp, with Yokohama (7.1), San Francisco (22.1) c.d.s. and, on the reverse, a fair strike of the large garter "local post agency nanking" postmark in grey-blue. Light even soiling.


An interesting and scarce card from the Nanking local post but not travelling via Shanghai


Estimate

Starting price
HK$8000