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Auction: 5023 - Important Great Britain, British Post Offices Abroad, Crowned Circles & B.E.
Lot: 856

x HONG KONG Treaty Ports Shanghai 1857 (July) entire to Sydney, marked "Via Ceylon", showing superb "shanghae post office/Crown/paid" circular handstamp in red, manuscript "4" in red and, on reverse, Hong Kong (5.8), Ship Letter Victoria (14.10) and Ship Letter Sydney (18.10) datestamps. Extremely rare, Webb recorded only three examples of this handstamp Estimate £ 8,000-10,000 provenance: Ryohei Ishikawa, December 1980 C. D'Almada, November 1990

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