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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6536

Hong Kong
Forwarding Agent's Cachets
De Silver & Co
1854 (10 Sept.) envelope to Pennsylvania "Overland Mail via Southampton" rated "28" and with handstruck "33" and New York Br. Pkt c.d.s. (16.11); the reverse with Hong Kong despatch, London transit (2.11) and a fine strike of oval "forwarded by/de silver & co/hong kong/late a.h. fryer & co" (39 x 30mm) in red. A good example of this scarce F.A.C.


Estimate
HK$3,000 to HK$5,000

Starting price
HK$2000