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Auction: 3034 - Meiso Mizuhara The Exhibition Collections - United States Post Offices in China
Lot: 48

†1871 (2 Aug.) blue commercial entire addressed to Yokohama "p Ariel" bearing 1870-71 6c. carmine tied by a neat strike of the Shanghai segmented cork obliterator with a fair strike of the Shanghai type 1 Agency c.d.s. alongside; a scarce franking showing the 6c. rate to Japan. Scott 148 Estimate £ 1,200-1,500 provenance: Sidney Hessel, June 1976

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£4,500