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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6483

Hong Kong
Postal Rates
Fourth U.P.U. Rate
1891 (19 Feb.) printed envelope to Bombay "Per S.S. Peshawar" bearing 1891 7c. on 10c. (5) cancelled by indistinct "B62" with the code "A" despatch alongside and showing the handstamp of H.A. Asger & H. Esmail in purple; the reverse with three different Bombay arrival c.d.s. (8.3); some peripheral wrinkling. A good franking

The general 7c. rate was introduced on 1 January 1891 and remained until 28 February 1891, except mail to U.K. which stayed at 7c. until 31 December 1893

Sold for
HK$4,800

Starting price
HK$1200