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Auction: CSS114 - The Shanghai Postal System
Lot: 270

Chinkiang
The Establishment of the Post Office
1894 (30 Aug.) a printed letter from the Deputy Postmaster-General of New South Wales asking to be furnished with examples of all the stamps, post cards and Stamped Envelopes issued at Chinkiang, offering a reciprocal arrangement for their stamps. Usual folding creases. A delightful inter-post office letter before the establishment of the U.P.U.

It was important for post offices to know which overseas stamps were legitimate issues in order to prevent possible fraud. Later the U.P.U. issued sets of Specimen stamps to all participating postal authorities


1894年8月30日澳洲新南威爾斯郵政副總長來函一份, 要求提供在鎮江發行的所有郵票, 明信片和郵資信封的樣本, 作為他們的郵票提供互惠安排. 信函有摺痕. 在萬國郵聯成立前, 國際上郵局與郵局之間交流的珍貴聯誼信函.

Estimate
HK$1,800 to HK$2,400

Starting price
HK$1200