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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6827

Hong Kong Treaty Ports
Foochow
Later Cancellations
1889 (9 Mar.) envelope to South Australia "Via Colombo" bearing 2c. carmine (10), 5c. blue (2) and 10c. green (2) tied by neat strikes of the Foochowfoo c.d.s.; the reverse (half is missing) with Adelaide transit (16.4); the envelope with some ageing and wrinkling. A stunning, double-rate franking

Sent by the fortnightly P. & O. service via Ceylon at 25c. per half ounce

Sold for
HK$2,800

Starting price
HK$1300