Auction: CSS60 - Fine Stamps of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 5715
Hong Kong Treaty Ports
Canton
Incoming Mail
Singapore: 1858 (4 Apr.) commercial entire letter to Augustine Heard "p Str 'Pekin'" bearing India 1855 4a. black on bluish (defect at right) cancelled by a light strike of the Singapore "B/172" in octagon with a neat "4d" rate mark in red crayon alongside and boxed "
The contents include mention of the 'Pekin' in Singapore and, "... without the European mail, the steamer from Suez not having arrived at Galle owing probably to some derangement consequence on the loos of the Ava"
Estimate
HK$3,000 to HK$5,000
Starting price
HK$3000