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Auction: 8002 - Stamps of Hong Kong & China
Lot: 965

Foreign Post Offices Japanese Post Office I.P.O. Tieprints wuhu: 1899 (27 June) envelope to New York bearing, on the reverse, a pair of C.I.P. 5c. red cancelled by a neat pa-kua with Yokohama (date inverted) Vancouver and arrival c.d.s. alongside,; the front with a superb strike of Wuhu bilingual c.d.s. plus Japan 10s. Koban with superb tieprint and "shanghai/i.j.p.o." c.d.s.; readdressed on arrival, fine and rare. Major Richard Pratt collection. Photo Estimate HK$ 20,000-25,000 This cover shows early use of the Wuhu postmarks, Paul Chang records the earliest use of this bilingual c.d.s. as 20th July 1899

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HK$35,000