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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6429

Hong Kong
Early Instructional Marks
Deficient Postage
Type R: 1870 (1 Nov.) blue wrapper (one flap reduced) to London "via Marseille" bearing 2c. brown and 30c. vermilion tied by "B62", William Pustau & Co company handstamp in corner and a fine strike of the boxed "insufficiently paid/for brindisi route/deficient postage/d3"in black, the reverse with Hong Kong despatch and London arrival (12.12) c.d.s. Fine and rare, apparently discovered in 1993

Sold for
HK$17,000

Starting price
HK$9000