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Auction: 3034 - Meiso Mizuhara The Exhibition Collections - United States Post Offices in China
Lot: 45

†1870 (6 Feb.) commercial entire from Nagasaki to Shanghai "Per 'New York'" bearing 1861-62 10c. blue-green (straight edge at left) tied by United States P.O. Nagasaki cork grid and showing Pignatel & Co. company cachet at left. This inter-consular cover bears the 10c. rate to China and was carried on the P.M.S.S. 'New York' which served between Yokohama, Nagasaki and Shanghai, fine. Scott 68a Estimate £ 2,000-2,500 provenance: Ryohei Ishikawa, July 1981 Note: the 'New York' alternated with the 'Costa Rica' to provide a bi-monthly service

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£5,000