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Auction: 3034 - Meiso Mizuhara The Exhibition Collections - United States Post Offices in China
Lot: 20

†1860 (10 Oct.) commercial entire letter from New York to Augustine Heard in Shanghai "Via Marseilles" bearing 1857-61 5c. brown, 10c. dark green type V and 30c. orange cancelled by neat strikes of barred circle cancellation in red and showing manuscript "24" rate mark in magenta alongside, London Paid c.d.s. alongside, the reverse with "new york. am. pkt." and Hong Kong c.d.s. A scarce franking with the 1860 30c. Scott 30A, 35, 38 Estimate £ 5,000-6,000 provenance: Herman Toaspern Walter C. Klein, March 1989

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£3,200