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Auction: CSS121 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 392

Foreign Post Offices
United States Post Office
Shanghai
1882-87 (c.) a group of covers to U.S.A. bearing 1882 5c. grey-brown with 1882 (c.) (2 Sept.) envelope to Arkansas bearing 15c. franking tied by indistinct cancellations and showing a fair strike of type II "u.s. postal agency/shanghai" c.d.s. in red; 1887 (9 Dec.) envelope to New York with 5c. franking cancelled by cork postmark and type III dated oval in purple, envelope from the U.S. Consul in Hankow with 10c. franking tied by cork postmarks and a very light strike of the dated oval in purple. Condition is mixed. (3 covers)


Estimate
HK$3,000 to HK$4,000

Starting price
HK$1800