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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6806

Hong Kong Treaty Ports
Canton
Incoming Mail
1848 (9 Mar.) entire from New York to Canton "via Southampton", carried privately to London on the 'Britannia'; bearing Lombard Street despatch cross (19.4) and "1/-" rate mark in red ink, the flap bearing a fine strike of Hong Kong arrival (16.6). Forwarded from Hong Kong by Augustine Heard & Co. There is a light horizontal fold, fresh and fine


Estimate
HK$1,500 to HK$2,000

Starting price
HK$800