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Auction: 5023 - Important Great Britain, British Post Offices Abroad, Crowned Circles & B.E.
Lot: 680

x HONG KONG Issued Stamps 1863-71 Watermark Crown CC 96c. olive-bistre used with 2c. brown (slightly damaged) and 30c. vermilion, paying the $1.28 quadruple rate for mail to England via Marseilles, on 1865 envelope to London, all tied by blue "B62" obliterators and showing two strikes of red London arrival c.d.s. (17.7); the envelope has been slightly trimmed and opened-out. A major rarity of great importance, one of two covers recorded bearing the 96c. olive-bistre Estimate £ 30,000-35,000 provenance: Duncan Cranford, January 1959 George E. Burghard, January 1961 Ryohei Ishikawa, December 1980

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