Auction: CSS22 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 2148
China
1898-1910 Chinese Imperial Post
Covers
Numbered Dater
— 1908 (3 Aug.) red band envelope registered to Tientsin bearing, on the reverse, C.I.P. 2c. and 5c. tied by lunar c.d.s. bearing a superb strike of Shanghai number 5 with name of the sub office at foot with the associated circular handstamp alongside (incomplete and smudged), a light strike of the registration handstamp and arrival c.d.s. Good to fine. Ex Peter Padget. Photo
Sold for
HK$12,000