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Auction: 25023 - Tibet - The 'Bramley' Collection Part I
Lot: 265

Tibet
Chinese Imperial Post
Unoverprinted Covers
Shigatse
1911 (16 June) C.I.P. 1c. postal stationery card to Gyantse cancelled by good strikes of "shigatse - tibet" type C3 c.d.s. with a second strike alongside and similar Gyantse arrival. The message is from a Nepalese trader. Rare and important use of the Coiling Dragon postal stationery card in Tibet. Photo

provenance:
Robson Lowe auction, January 1973


Less than twelve of these cards are recorded as being used in Tibet

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Estimate
£15,000 to £20,000

Starting price
£11000