Previous Lot Next Lot

Auction: 20188 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - e-Auction
Lot: 302

Nanking
Local Post
Covers, International Mail
French Post Office: 1896 (25 Sept.) envelope wrapper to London bearing first issue 1c. cancelled by Nanking Local Post dated oval in purple with France "Chine" 5c. pair tied by "shang-hai/chine" c.d.s. (26.9) and London redirection c.d.s. (9.11) and, on the reverse, a faint strike of Shanghai Local Post c.d.s. (26.9) in red.

These stamps were put on sale on 20th September and this is thought to be the earliest example on either commercial or international mail

provenance:
H.B.R. Clarke, April 1953

'Ming', September 1988

Beckeman Collection, May 2001

Elling O. Eide, January 2014

Estimate

Starting price
HK$28000