The 2024 Winter Auction - Sale 344 (December 14 - December 17, 2024)
Sale 344
- (-) Remove Mr. Chan Chi Ho’s Collection of Hong Kong Queen Victoria Postal Cards filter Mr. Chan Chi Ho’s Collection of Hong Kong Queen Victoria Postal Cards
tied by B62 killer, along witli Hong Kong cds., with wine advertisement on reverse, vertical fold. Earlier more than one month the previously Earliest Recorded Use 1880 QV 1c green postal card (3 April 1880)
Earliest Recorded Use of all QV postal cards with printed indicia by general public (except the another one 1880 4c grey postal card which is the earliest used by Hong Kong GPO on 19 Feb 1880 (see Lot 7553), extremely rare.
indicia cancelled by very clear S1 killer (Type 1), along with Shanghae cds. (Type B1), Hong Kong arrival cds. (May 15) and messages on reverse, 2nd Earliest Recorded Use of this card in Shanghai.
indicia cancelled by very clear Shanghae cds. (Type B1), with messages on reverse. Earliest Recorded Use of Shanghae cds. on postal cards (Earlier than Webb's earliest record - 3 Jun 1882).
(Note: Hong Kong Post Office and other British Post Offices of Treaty Ports in China firstly used cds. on postal cards instead of killer chops in around 1881/1882 and then used on covers in around 1885).
indicia cancelled by very clear Canton cds. (Type B), with Hong Kong arrival cds. (Oct 20) and messages on reverse. Earliest Recorded Use of Canton cds. on postal cards (Earlier than Webb's earliest record - 21 Jan 1884).
Customs Kiungchow cds. (Mar 19) on reverse, indicia cancelled by Hong Kong cds. (Mar 21), only one recorded use example of QV 1c card, extremely rare.
former one indicia cancelled by Hong Kong cds, with rare Hoihow Type D arrival (1888 Au) cds. on front, messages on reverse, later one canceled by Hoikow index C cds. Very rare.
