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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6865

Hong Kong Treaty Ports
Swatow
"S2" Obliterator
1876 (10 May) neat Wingate envelope to New Hampshire, U.S.A. "via San Francisco per City of Peking" bearing 4c. (left wing margin) and 12c. blue cancelled by a single strike of the "S2" in blue, with Hong Kong Paid All code "C" c.d.s. (12.5) in red and San Francisco (11.6) in mauve, the reverse bearing Swatow type B c.d.s. in blue. One of the earlier covers; fine and attractive

provenance:
George C. Dyer, November 1984

Estimate
HK$20,000 to HK$25,000

Starting price
HK$14000