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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6445

Hong Kong
Postal Rates
Mail to Great Britain
British Packet via Marseilles, 32c. per ½oz.: 1868 (13 Oct.) neat entire from Shanghai to London "Via Marseilles" bearing 8c., 24c. and 96c. tied by "B62" and pen stroke, with "5/4" rate mark in red crayon and London Paid arrival (30.11), the reverse with Shanghai despatch in blue and Hong Kong transit (19.10); there is a light horizontal filing fold. A very fresh entire paying four times rate for 2 ounce letter. A scarce cover bearing the 96c.

Sold for
HK$9,000

Starting price
HK$9000