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Auction: CSS12 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 1623

Hong Kong
1863-71
1864 (30 Nov.) entire letter to Boston, U.S.A. "Via Marseilles" bearing 6c. lilac (wing margin) and 48c. rose-carmine cancelled by "B62" in blue with "1" and "2/1½" rate marks in red crayon, London Paid (11.1.1865) and "boston am pkt/paid" (28.1) c.d.s. in red. The reverse bears a fine strike of the large, double-oval "Forwarded By/Augustine Heard & Co./Hong Kong" in red with Hong Kong despatch c.d.s. Fresh and attractive, paying the 2/2½d. rate (54c.) to U.S.A. Photo

Estimate
HK$8,000 to HK$10,000