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Auction: CSS114 - The Shanghai Postal System
Lot: 334

Foochow
The Shanghai Agency
Through Foreign Post Offices
United States
1895 (12 Mar.) envelope to U.S.A. bearing a good strike of the framed "PAID" in carmine-rose overstruck by a light strike of the Agency Foochow c.d.s. code "T" and with U.S. 1890-93 5c. Grant tied by the U.S. Postal Agency Shanghai duplex (23.3) and, on the reverse, faint Shanghai Local Post c.d.s. (15.3), San Francisco (12.4) and Baltimore arrival (18.4) c.d.s.; a fragment of the back corner is missing which does not spoil this important cover.

One of only two known covers used during the Sino-Japanese war in the pre-adhesive period with the postage Paid handstamp. Photo

provenance:
Richard Canman, December 1988


1895年3月12日福州寄美國封, 蓋清晰方框型紅色郵資已付戳, 其上再蓋福州代辦所"T"字福州日戳, 加貼1890-93年5仙票, 銷3月23日上海美國客郵代辦日戳, 在封背有較模糊的3月15日藍色上海工部日戳, 4月12日三藩市中轉戳, 及4月18日Baltimore到達戳. 封背的右上角雖有缺失, 但絕無影響這封的重要性. 這由於在甲午戰爭時期, 及福州書信館郵票發行前, 蓋有此方框型郵資已付戳的實寄封存世只两件, 此為其一.

Estimate
HK$18,000 to HK$24,000

Starting price
HK$14000