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Auction: 20188 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - e-Auction
Lot: 559

Chefoo
Official Mail
1894 (19 May) buff envelope registered to the Chief Officer on the S.S. 'Rosetta' c/o the P.& O. Agent in Shanghai, bears 1c. red and 5c. orange tied by a fine strike of the Local Post c.d.s. in black with the straight-line "registered" handstamp at left with manuscript "No.430" in red ink and, on the reverse, further despatch c.d.s., faint Shanghai Local Post (21.5) and some delivery characters in blue crayon. The cover was forwarded to Bombay and finally to S.S. 'Assam' in Aden and would have been carried privately on P.& O. ships. Offered with the original Local Post Office Memorandum enclosing stamps to the value of $1 and is signed by Amelia van Ess, the Local Postmistress. A delightful cover to this very unusual destination

provenance:
Charles Goodwyn, November 2001,

Elling O. Eide, November 2014

Estimate

Starting price
HK$14000