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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6425

Hong Kong
Early Instructional Marks
Too Late
1847 (25 May) Huth wrapper to London "via Marseilles" rated "2/3" bearing a good strike of the double-lined "too late" in black (type AAi), the reverse with type 9 despatch c.d.s. and London arrival (21.7); note at foot indicates that the letter included a bill of lading for tea; two vertical folding creases. Pays 1/- British packet rate via Marseilles plus 1/3d. for additional ¾oz. An early date. Webb R

provenance:
E.E. Yates, November 1939

Sold for
HK$3,800

Starting price
HK$1200