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Auction: 5023 - Important Great Britain, British Post Offices Abroad, Crowned Circles & B.E.
Lot: 858

x HONG KONG Treaty Ports Shanghai 1863 (22 Feb.) envelope to Bristol, marked "Via Southampton", bearing 1862 24c. green tied by a good strike of the type A Shanghai c.d.s. overstruck by "B62" in black, showing "1" rate mark in red ink and London Paid c.d.s. alongside; the reverse with further Shanghai c.d.s. with Hong Kong and Bristol. A spectacular and rare cover, Webb records only three covers cancelled with the Shanghai c.d.s. and the second earliest cover bearing Hong Kong adhesives. B.P.A. Certificate (1991) Estimate £ 2,000-2,500 provenance: Ryohei Ishikawa, December 1980

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