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Auction: 5023 - Important Great Britain, British Post Offices Abroad, Crowned Circles & B.E.
Lot: 662

x HONG KONG Issued Stamps 1862-63 No Watermark Issue 8c. yellow-buff and 24c. green with wing-margin tied by "B62" in blue-black on 1863 (5 Jan.) envelope to Blandford, marked "Via Marseilles", rated "1/4" in red ink, and showing a faint strike of the Hong Kong despatch plus Blandford arrival c.d.s. on the reverse; some tone spotting and peripheral ageing. An important cover being the earliest recorded cover from Hong Kong bearing adhesives Estimate £ 15,000-20,000 provenance: Ryohei Ishikawa, December 1980

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