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Auction: 20188 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - e-Auction
Lot: 428

Foochow
The Shanghai Agency
1892 (Nov.) envelope to Shanghai bearing Shanghai 1890 Double Dragon 5c. carmine-pink tied by a very fine strike of the bilingual "local post agency/foochow" in blue and bearing, on the reverse, Shanghai Local Post c.d.s. (27.11) in blue with the pencil postman's delivery characters. A fine and attractive cover.


This is thought to be the earliest use of this postmark on domestic mail

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Starting price
HK$10000