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Auction: 20188 - The Treaty Ports of the Shanghai Postal System - e-Auction
Lot: 588

Wei Hai Wei
Japanese Occupation (1895-98)
Incoming Mail
1897 (4 Jan.) 1s. postal stationery card to Wei Hai Wei cancelled by Gunma Ken c.d.s. and a very fine strike of Wei Hai F.P.O. No.1 c.d.s. (23.1) struck in brownish black. The card with a New Year's greeting. Very fine and the earliest recorded use of the F.P.O. in a blackish colour

provenance:
Elling O. Eide, January 2014

Estimate

Starting price
HK$2000