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Auction: 13009 - Fine Stamps and Covers of China and Hong Kong
Lot: 2553

Hong Kong Treaty Ports
Post Offices in Japan
Yokohama
1873 (6 Oct.) commercial entire letter to France, "via Brindisi" bearing 2c. brown and 8c. pale dull orange (2) cancelled by good strikes of the thin type "Y1" obliterator in dark blue, with "P.D." in red and transit c.d.s. in red; the reverse with despatch c.d.s. in blue, Hong Kong (14.10), Brindisi (17.11) and other c.d.s.; horizontal filing crease; a couple of trivial faults on the adhesives, fresh and fine. A good cover showing the 18c. rate by British packet to France via Brindisi. Photo

Sold for
HK$26,000