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Auction: CSS31 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 3047

Foreign Post Offices
United States Post Office
1885 (9 Aug.) envelope to Chicago "Via Japan" bearing 1882 5c. grey-brown cancelled by cork cancellation in red with a good strike of "u.s. postal agency/shanghai" type IIa c.d.s. in red, the reverse with San Francisco (3.9) and arrival c.d.s. A good cover with the red postmark which is scarce. Photo

Sold for
HK$2,600