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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6450

Hong Kong
Postal Rates
Mail to Europe
France: 1866 (8 Dec.) entire letter from Shanghai to Lyon "Via Marseilles" bearing no watermark 18c. with Crown CC 6c. and 8c. tied by "B62" with manuscript "1/4" and "1" rate marks in red ink, handstruck "PD" and "P.P." plus Marseille transit (28.1), the reverse bearing Shanghai despatch in blue, Hong Kong (12.12) and Lyon arrival (28.1). A fine and attractive double rate cover with a three-colour franking

provenance:
'Antonia', October 1981


This rate of 16c. per ¼ ounce went from 22 August 1863 to 16 February 1871

Estimate
HK$6,000 to HK$10,000

Starting price
HK$4500