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Auction: CSS98 - The Philatelic Collector's Series
Lot: 134

China
Postal History
Imperial Post
1899 (25 Nov.) envelope to France bearing C.I.P. 10c. cancelled by Chefoo bilingual c.d.s. in combination with Q.V. 5c. (2) cancelled by Hong Kong c.d.s. (12.1) with I.P.O. small framed tie-print, showing "Ligne N/Paq. Fr. No. 8" c.d.s. (12.2) adjacent. Normally, when sending mail fromChefoo to overseas destinations with a combination of Hong Kong and Chinese stamps, it should pass through Shanghai as an intermediary. In such cases, there should be a Shanghai transit postmark. However, in this particular piece, the Hong Kong stamp bears a direct Hong Kong datestamp, and there is no Shanghai postmark on the mail, the mail did not make landfall in Shanghai but was instead directly transported by ship to Hong Kong. Such a mail route is exceedingly rare.


1899年煙臺寄法國實寄封1件，貼倫敦版蟠龍10分1枚，香港女王像5仙2枚，蟠龍銷煙臺11月25日戳，香港票騎縫銷IPO戳，郵件經香港中轉，香港票銷香港12月1日戳，另有法國輪船郵局12月2日戳，郵戳清晰，保存完好，通常煙臺寄海外混貼香港票郵件應經上海中轉，而香港票會銷上海英國可郵戳，此封香港票直接銷香港日戳，郵件無上海郵戳，因而證明郵件並未在上海上岸，而是直接由輪船運至香港，此種郵路非常少見

Estimate
HK$5,000 to HK$6,000

Starting price
HK$5000