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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6577

Hong Kong
Marine Sorters
Hong Kong to Shanghai
Type B: 1868 (8 Oct.) Davis envelope to Shanghai "Via Marseilles" bearing G.B. 1865-67 4d. orange and 6d. purple (2, one overlapping edge of envelope) tied by Belfast duplex, the reverse bearing London transit and a very good strike of the Marine Sorter "NO/19/27/68" (Proud D4); the earliest recorded example of this postmark. Webb RRR

Estimate
HK$10,000 to HK$15,000

Starting price
HK$7000