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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6884

Hong Kong Treaty Ports
Wei Hai Wei
Port Edward Registered Handstamp
1918 (22 July) commercial envelope registered to San Francisco "By first steamer" bearing K.G.V China 2c., the reverse with additional 2c. (3) and 4c. (3), tied by Wei-Hai-Wei Port Edward code "F" c.d.s. with a fine strike of the framed "R/port edward/ no...1566" handstamp in black; the reverse additionally with Shanghai registered oval and San Francisco arrival (28.8) c.d.s. The earliest date of use of this registered handstamp (according to Proud)

provenance:
Christopher D'Almada, November 1990

Sold for
HK$12,000

Starting price
HK$3500