Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6770
Hong Kong Treaty Ports
Amoy
"B62" Period
1874 (2 Nov.) envelope to Madeira "per French Mail" bearing 2c. brown (right wing margin), 8c. orange (left wing margin) and 30c. mauve cancelled by "B62" and tied by London Paid c.d.s. (11.12) with rate marks "1" and "1/7" in red crayon, the reverse with Amoy code "A" c.d.s. in bluish black and Hong Kong c.d.s. (4.11), the flap is embossed with John Forrester & Co. Amoy. An appealing franking paying the 40c. rate
Sold for
HK$7,000
Starting price
HK$4000