The 2025 Summer Auction - Sale 345 (June 21 - June 25, 2025)
Sale 345
- (-) Remove Stephen Yen's Collection of The Chinese Imperial Post 1897-1911 Evolution of Cancellations filter Stephen Yen's Collection of The Chinese Imperial Post 1897-1911 Evolution of Cancellations
VF-F.
including a Peking CIP Postage Paid postmark and a rectangular Peking datestamp.
f.w. CIP 1/2c x 2, 2c and 5c, tied by Peking Dollar cds. Picture side bearing rare red Peking Customs (CUSTOMS removed) cds.
f.w. CIP 1c pair x 2, tied by Shanhaikwan PO tombstone PO postmark, along with rare oval Chinwangtao PO cds, Shanghai Chinese PO and French PO transit cds. VF-F.
f.w. CIP 4c, tied by rare Shanhaikwan circular postmark, with Tangku, Shanghai Chinese PO, French PO transits cds. alongside. VF-F.
f.w. CIP 5c x 4, tied by oval Paoting datestamps, along with all English Paoting registered cachet and Shanghai French PO transit, on reverse with Shanghai Chinese PO transit and France arrival. Cover folded in the middle. VF-F.
tied by oval Peking datestamp (the date was the re-opening day of Peking PO after the Boxer Uprising as well as the first day of the year), along with Tientsin transit and Paoting Dollar arrival cds. (with Chinese Kwang Hsu Year, scarce). VF-F.
tied by oval Peking PO cds.(the date was the second day of the re-opening of Peking PO after the Boxer Uprising as well as the second day of the year), along with Peking German PO transit and Germany arrival. VF-F.
f.w. CIP 2c on reverse, tied by Peking bilingual cds., along with Peking No. 14 circular postmark and Tientsin arrival. VF-F.
VF.
f.w. CIP 1c x 3 and 10c, tied by Taiyuanfu PO lunar year tombstone cancel, along with registered mark. On reverse with Peking Lomashi Street branch PO tombstone arrival and oval Peking PO arrival cds. VF-F.
bearing rare Nanking PO Dollar cds. with handwritten date. Weak paper and damaged. F.