The 2022 Winter Auction - Sale 339
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Starting Price: 2,200 HK$
Hammer Price: 2,800 HK$
on front bearing "2/1" rate manuscript, "Via Marseilles" manuscript and "SHIPLETTER / VICTORIA HONGKONG" cachet. On reverse with Canton originainting datestamp, Hong Kong transit and London arrival cds. It is the only recorded Hong Kong ship letter handstamp which was applied to mails carried by private ships from Treaty Ports to Hong Kong for further transit. Only around 30 examples exist. Most of them sent from Shanghai while a few from Canton or Macao. Cover stained. F-VF.
Starting Price: 1,000 HK$
Hammer Price: 1,200 HK$
bearing "1/-" and "4" rate manuscripts, crowned "PAID AT HONG KONG" postmark and framed "ZEEBRIEF ONGEFRANKEERD P.S.B" cachet. The letter was probably carried privately to Hong Kong and was posted at Hong Kong post office. VF-F.
Starting Price: 75,000 HK$
Unsold
1 of 3 known covers at 38c Prussian closed mail rate to Hong Kong . 1 of 6 known cover from US via GB , Belgium and Germany to China.
Starting Price: 1,500 HK$
Hammer Price: 2,400 HK$
on front bearing "34" rate manuscript, "39" rate in handstamp, "Via Marseilles" cachet and USA arrival. On the flap with Hong Kong and London transit cds. VF-F.
Starting Price: 1,500 HK$
Hammer Price: 3,600 HK$
bearing Crowned "PAID AT HONG KONG" postmark, along with handwritten postage rate remarks and London arrival. On reverse with double-ringed Hong Kong originating cds. and Edinburgh arrival cds.
Starting Price: 1,600 HK$
Hammer Price: 4,000 HK$
on front bearing "1/10" rate manuscript, Hong Kong originating cds., clear Crowned "PAID AT HONG KONG" postmark and Gibraltar arrival cds. VF-F.
Starting Price: 1,500 HK$
Unsold
on front bearing "9" rate manuscript but crossed out to "18", "Via Marseilles" cachet and Marseilles transit. On the flap with Hong Kong originating cds and several French transit cds. VF-F.
Starting Price: 1,500 HK$
Hammer Price: 2,000 HK$
on front bearing "1/8" rate manuscript, "Via Marseilles" manuscript, Shanghae Paid cds, "P.P." cachet, framed "PD" cachet and Marseilles transit cds. On the flap with Shanghae British PO cds, Hong Kong transit and Lyon arrival cds. VF-F.
Starting Price: 24,000 HK$
Unsold
1 of 2 recorded covers on last of 4 pre-contract westward PMSSCo transpacific trip. Great Republic 2 days late to Hong Kong. This mail not P & O to Amoy, usually, per Kirk.
Starting Price: 6,000 HK$
Hammer Price: 6,000 HK$
f.w. Hong Kong QV 4c vertical pair (faulty), tied by B62 obliterator, along with Hong Kong Paid All cds in red, rare oval "China and Japan Steam Service" seal (which has less than 10 known Hong Kong cover examples) and San Francisco arrival cds.
This letter was carried by contract vessel "Great Republic" of Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Therefore, only 8c was charged according to the convention reached between US and Hong Kong in November 1867.
Starting Price: 1,500 HK$
Hammer Price: 1,500 HK$
f.w. Hong Kong QV 24c (stamp faulty at upper left cornor), tied by B62 obliterator, along with handwritten postage rate in crayon, Marseilles transitand P.D. mark. On reverse with Hong Kong originating cds., Marseilles transit and Paris arrival cds.
Starting Price: 14,000 HK$
Unsold
f.w. QV 2c, 4c, 30c x 5 and 48c x 2 (one faulty), tied by B62 obliterators, along with oval "FORWARDED BY/ RUSSELL & Co./ HONG KONG" cachet, London transit and Boston arrival cds. Postal rate inscriptions "10/" and "6/18" alongside. On reverse showing Hong Kong cds. VF-F.