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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6849

Hong Kong Treaty Ports
Hoihow
Samah Land Post
1894 (9 Aug.) Hong Kong 1c. postal stationery card addressed to "R.S. 'Kaipan', Sama,. Hainan" cancelled by Hong Kong code "C" c.d.s. with Hoihow thimble (14.8) and shows a fine strike of the boxed "hainan/land/post/samah" in reddish with manuscript date insertion "Aug 19/94" plus circular "hai/samah./nan" (a second strike on the reverse). A few slight age marks. Fine and very scarce, believed to be one of only two such post cards

Estimate
HK$40,000 to HK$50,000

Starting price
HK$28000