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Auction: 3034 - Meiso Mizuhara The Exhibition Collections - United States Post Offices in China
Lot: 54

†1882 (15 July) envelope from Hankow, registered to North Marshfield "Via San Francisco" bearing 1879 5c. blue in a horizontal strip of three (straight edge at left) and pair paying the triple rate plus 10c. registration and cancelled by black ink brush strokes, the strip tied by a fine strike of the rare "u.s. postal agency shanghai/registered" c.d.s. in red, showing date error with straight-line "registered" in red alongside, the reverse with a faint strike of "customs/hankow" c.d.s. and "customs/shanghai" c.d.s. in red, the latter overstruck by San Francisco four-line registration datestamp in violet. The cover has a horizontal crease at top (running through the adhesives) and a repaired tear at right. An item of paramout importance, only three or four examples of this registration c.d.s. are recorded, this being the only example in red. Holcombe Certificate (1986) Estimate £ 10,000-15,000 provenance: "Ming", March 1987

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