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Auction: 5023 - Important Great Britain, British Post Offices Abroad, Crowned Circles & B.E.
Lot: 837

x HONG KONG Treaty Ports Hankow 1880 (4 Oct.) 3c. stationery card from the French Consulate to Bordeaux cancelled by a good strike of the "D.29" obliterator lightly overstruck by faint French transit d.s. in red, showing despatch c.d.s. below with, on reverse, Shanghai (7.10), Hong Kong (10.10) and "ligne n/paq. fr. no. 3" (13.10) transit datestamps. A fine example of this scarce postmark which is believed to be the earliest example without the additional "S1" obliterator. Holcombe (1994) and B.P.A. (1995) Certificates Estimate £ 8,000-10,000

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