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Auction: 3034 - Meiso Mizuhara The Exhibition Collections - United States Post Offices in China
Lot: 98

†1920 (2 Oct.) envelope registered to Philadelphia bearing 1919 2c. on 1c. to $2 on $1 set of sixteen tied by several strikes of "u.s. pos. service, shanghai, china/ rec'd" c.d.s. plus a single strike of type XII duplex, the reverse with type IX "u.s. postal agency shanghai china/registered" double-circle c.d.s. in mauve with date inverted plus transit marks via Chicago. A scarce and colourful franking Estimate £ 3,000-3,500 The envelope is with the return address of Arnold Brothers & Co. in Shanghai and was sent from Theodore Siddal, a stamp dealer, to the famous collector Eugene Klein

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£1,500