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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6411

Hong Kong
Postal History
Paid Handstamp
Type 10: 1846 (29 Oct.) entire letter to London, "Prepaid, Per overland Mail" with a clear "4/-" rate mark in red ink, a good strike of the boxed "paid" handstamp in red with London Paid arrival c.d.s. (5.1), the flap with Hong Kong type 9 despatch c.d.s. Some creasing and wrinkling. A high franking for a 2 ounce letter which originally included a long article for the United Service Magazine

Sold for
HK$900

Starting price
HK$800