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Auction: CSS14 - The Philatelic Collector's Sale
Lot: 162

Hong Kong
Ephemera
1950 (18 Mar.) A document issued by HSBC regarding the telegraphic transfer of 200,000 Sterling (equivalent to $3 million Hong Kong dollar plus) to Chase Bank, Hong Kong, with the cost of stamp duty of $646.3, bearing on reverse K.G.VI. Stamp Duty 30c. single, $3 (2), $10(4), $20 (15), $25 (12), all with "B of E" overprint in black and tied by "The Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation/Draft Dept." oval h.s. in violet; unusal for such high amount transferred in during 1950s. Photo

Sold for
HK$2,600