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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6795

Hong Kong Treaty Ports
Canton
"C1" Obliterator
1877 (7 May) opened-out envelope registered to Hong Kong "pr Rinshaw" bearing 2c. brown and pair of 4c. grey tied by "C1" barred ovals with a light strike of the rare Canton registered oval in red, the earliest recorded date for this postmark (Proud); the reverse bears a light strike of Customs Canton c.d.s. type A (two figure yeardate), an early date for this. Horizontal crease at foot

provenance:
Lt. Col. L.T. Rose-Hutchinson, November 1949


literature:
Webb, described on page 264

Sold for
HK$42,000

Starting price
HK$22000