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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6818

Hong Kong Treaty Ports
Foochow
Pre-adhesive Period
1863 (May) envelope to Bombay "pr Mail Steamer" bearing a weak strike of the intaglio seal "foo-chow-foo/china" in red with a fine strike of Hong Kong boxed "paid" alongside, "4" and "8" rate marks in red crayon, the reverse bearing Hong Kong (27.5) and Bombay (22.6) c.d.s.; a part of the flap is missing. A rare and important cover. Webb RRR

provenance:
E.E. Yates, November 1939


literature:
Webb, described on page 267

Sold for
HK$32,000

Starting price
HK$5500