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Auction: CSS111 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 747

(x) Hong Kong
Covers and Cancellations
Peninsular & Orient Mailboat Service
"A81": 1866 (13 Dec.) blue envelope to Somerset "Via Marseilles" bearing a pair of G.B. 1855-57 4d. plate 7 cancelled by a single strike of the "A81" barred oval, rated "8" and with a fine strike of unframed "exc/oz/deficient postage 2/colony's share of fine 3/5" (Proud UP3) and circular "more/to/pay", the reverse with Hong Kong code "C" despatch, London, Taunton and Ilchester arrival (30.1) c.d.s.; small part of flap missing and light peripheral soiling. "A81" applied on P.& O. 'China'. Rare, very few underpaid covers are known

provenance:
Robert Horley-Taylor, November 1995


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Estimate

Starting price
HK$25000