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Auction: 20188 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - e-Auction
Lot: 430

Foochow
Shanghai Agency
1893 (c.) part wrapper to the Mercantile Bank of India, carried Per S.S. “Koro Shing” bearing Shanghai 1893 “1ct.“ on half 2c. brown tied by a superb strike of the bilingual “local post agency/foochow” in greenish blue. This is thought to be the only example of the bisected surcharge used on cover in the Foochow Agency

provenence:
Charles Dougan, October 1983

Charles Goodwyn, November 2001

Estimate

Starting price
HK$6000