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Auction: 3034 - Meiso Mizuhara The Exhibition Collections - United States Post Offices in China
Lot: 31

†1865 (Apr.) commercial yellow envelope to Shanghai "Via Marseilles" bearing 1862-66 5c. black-brown and vertical pair of 24c. grey-lilac (straight edge at right) cancelled by barred triangles with New York British Packet and London Paid c.d.s., fine examples of handstruck "48" and "1d" in red, faint Shanghai arrival c.d.s. in blue on the reverse. Paying the British Packet 53c. rate via Marseilles. Scott 75, 78 Estimate £ 600-700 provenance: Sidney A. Hessel, June 1976

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£580