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Auction: CSS114 - The Shanghai Postal System
Lot: 377

Swatow
Shanghai Agency
Incoming Mail
1893 (25 July) Shanghai "postage paid 1 cent" stationery envelope (E1g) to Diercking in Swatow bearing top margin pair of 1893 ½c. on half 1c. carmine-pink tied by two superb strikes of bilingual cancellation in blue with Local Post Agency Amoy code "J" c.d.s.


A rare and important cover sent between Amoy and Swatow. Photo


1893年7月25日廈門寄汕頭Diercking 上海書信館 "壹仙郵費已付" 郵資封(E1g), 另貼上海書信館雙龍對剖票半仙两枚, 銷廈門書信館中英文無日期戳, 旁銷7月25日帶"J"字英文廈門代辦所日戳; 是廈門與汕頭之間直接通遞 (未向北經由上海書信館轉遞) 的罕見及重要實寄件, 存世僅两件.

Estimate
HK$14,000 to HK$18,000

Starting price
HK$11000