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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6667

Hong Kong
China Expeditionary Force
F.P.O. No.7 (Tartar City, Peking)
1901 (12 Mar.) Q.V. ½a. stationery envelope, uprated Q.V. 1a. cancelled by type 50 c.d.s., sent by G. Burgess of the "New South Wales Naval Contingent, Pekin, China" to Newcastle, New South Wales, the reverse with part Base Office B, Base Office (24.3), Sydney and part Newcastle (17.4) c.d.s. A little soiled. A rare item from a member of one of only two small units of Australian Forces to form part of the C.E.F.

For another N.S.W. Contingent cover, see lot 6651

Sold for
HK$8,500

Starting price
HK$8500