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Auction: 3034 - Meiso Mizuhara The Exhibition Collections - United States Post Offices in China
Lot: 30

†1866 (8 Jan.) envelope (flap missing) addressed to "Steamer Wachasett", Macao "Via Southampton" bearing 1861-63 3c. pale brown-red, 10c. green, 30c. orange and 1862-66 2c. Black Jack (defective at side) cancelled by target cancellations and indistinct Rochester New York c.d.s., American packet Paid and London Paid c.d.s. plus handstruck "40" and "1" in red, Hong Kong backstamp; an attractive four-colour franking paying the British Packet 45c rate via Southampton. Scott 65, 68, 71, 73 Estimate £ 800-1,000 provenance: Paul J. Wolf, December 1982

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