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Auction: 26025 - Tibet - The 'Bramley' Collection, Part II
Lot: 3147

Tibet
Chinese Imperial Post
Incoming Mails
1892 (17 Mar.) part of wrapper, newspaper rate from Shanghai to Tibet cancelled by shanghai local post c.d.s. Fine and extremely rare early incoming mail to Tibet. Photo

notes:
This was a type of pre-cancel payment made on a subscription basis for all and any mail posted and this postmark would and could pay postage to any part of the Chinese Empire.
The system was being abused, and mail had grown to so vast a volume that checking each letter against the subscribers list was no longer possible, it was abolished on 31st December 1892.

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Estimate
£500 to £700

Starting price
£350