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Auction: 3034 - Meiso Mizuhara The Exhibition Collections - United States Post Offices in China
Lot: 61

†1890 (31 Oct.) blue envelope from the United States Consulate in Ningpo, addressed to Boston, bearing 1887-88 5c. indigo with bars cancellation and showing a superb strike of the type IIIa Shanghai Agency dated oval in purple, San Francisco transit on the reverse. Early use of the type IIIa oval. Scott 216 Estimate £ 250-300

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£280