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Auction: CSS114 - The Shanghai Postal System
Lot: 82

Ichang
Opening of Ichang Post Office
Use of Chungking Stamps
1895 (1 May) piece of newspaper wrapper addressed to Chungking bearing Chungking third issue 2c. rose-red tied by the boxed Ichang datestamp and showing the scarce boxed "collect on delivery" handstamp in the same purple ink. Repaired at top.


It is thought that this wrapper was mailed from Shanghai to the I.M. Customs in Chungking but underpaid. The postage stamp applied in Ichang as a postage due, hence the collection on delivery.


Very scarce with the instructional mark. Photo

provenance:
Charles Goodwyn, November 2001


1895年5月1日寄重慶新聞紙剪片, 重慶信局貼第三版銀貳分票, 玫紅色, 銷紫色重慶信局宜昌分局方框型日戳, 旁蓋少見紫色方框型"collect on delivery", 剪片頂部曾修補. 因寄信人並未預貼郵票, 所以由宜昌書信館貼上重慶信局郵票及銷戳, 後由重慶信館向重慶海關收取所欠的郵資, 郵件上所蓋的紫色 "collect on delivery" 方框型戳, 其實等同欠資戳. 非常罕見的指示戳記.

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

Starting price
HK$2400