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Auction: 6010 - Important Stamps & Covers of the World - Washington Philatelic Exhibition Auction
Lot: 242

x United States of America Post Office in China 1860 (10 Oct.) commercial entire letter ex the "Heard" correspondence from New York to Shanghai, marked "Via Marseilles", bearing 1857-61 5c. brown, 10c. dark green (type V) and 30c. orange, each cancelled by neat barred oval in red, showing manuscript "24" in magenta, London Paid transit c.d.s. (26.10) and, on reverse, despatch and Hong Kong (11.12) datestamps. A scarce and most attractive franking. Sc. 30A, 35, 38 Estimate US$ 6,000-8,000provenance: Herman Toaspern Walter C. Klein, March 1989 Meiso Mizuhara, December 2003

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