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Auction: 20188 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - e-Auction
Lot: 539

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1897 (27 Jan.) envelope and letter from Mrs L.S. Neal in Chinanfu to Shanghai bearing 1c. red tied by the double-circle c.d.s. in deep blue with a second strike on the reverse along with Shanghai Local Post c.d.s. (29.1) and postman's delivery notation in pencil. The letter gives thanks for the gift of two dolls to the writer's daughter. Fine and very late use before the closure of the Local Post a few days later

James Boyd Neal (M 1883) served as editor of the China Medical Journal, president of the China Medical Missionary Association, and president of the School of Medicine of the Shantung Christian University. Neal was decorated for his work during northern China’s 1912 outbreak of pneumonic plague.

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HK$2400