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Auction: CSS121 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 261

Foreign Post Offices
French Post Office
Shanghai
1860 (20 Nov.) envelope to Lyon bearing Empire imperf. 40c. (oxidised and just cut into at top) cancelled by a fine strike of "CECB.Cl" in lozenge (Shanghai Central Bureau) with a good strike of "corps exp. chine/bau central" c.d.s. showing month inverted, the reverse bearing French transit and Lyon arrival c.d.s.; good to fine. From the Second Opium War. Photo


Estimate
HK$2,500 to HK$3,000

Starting price
HK$1500