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Auction: 3034 - Meiso Mizuhara The Exhibition Collections - United States Post Offices in China
Lot: 27

†1862 (13 Dec.) blue envelope from New York to Shanghai "Via Marseilles" bearing 1861-62 1c. blue, 10c. green (2) and 30c. orange-buff (paying the 51c. rate for 1/4oz.) cancelled by barred circles with "n.york.am.pkt/paid" c.d.s. in red, London Paid transit, manuscript "30" rate mark and large handstruck "1" plus Hong Kong (part) and Shanghai c.d.s. on the reverse, a colourful franking. Scott 63, 68a, 71 Estimate £ 1,000-1,200 provenance: Sidney A. Hessel, June 1976

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