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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6490

Hong Kong
Postal Rates
Fourth U.P.U. Rate
1894 envelope to Colchester bearing 2c. carmine (uncancelled) and 5c. blue "Per C.P.R's 'Empress of Japan'", the 5c. cancelled by "c.p.rwl.mail" c.d.s., the reverse with a fine strike of Colchester (1.9) arrival c.d.s. A fine and rare cover carried on the Canadian Pacific Railway ship and very late use of the 7c. rate which should have finished on 1st January

literature:
Illustrated in Webb (plate 91)


For Printed Paper Rates, see lots 6609, 6610

Estimate
HK$10,000 to HK$20,000

Starting price
HK$7000