Lot# 7033
The 2023 Winter Auction - Sale 342 December 16th - 19th 2023, Hong Kong
Lot# 7033
Starting Price: 10,000 HK$
Hammer Price: 10,000 HK$
28 feb 1903, a very fine use of a special local dollar chop of "Kian Post Office" combined with Nanchang P.O. tombstone, and the card is full of characters
28 Feb 1903, a C.I.P. 1st series stationery card sent from Kian City, Kiangsi Province, to the United Kingdom, uprated with one 1 cent coiling dragon stamp and one 2-cent stamp, cancelled by two special large circular postmarks of the "Kian Post Office". It was transferred to Nanchang and stamped with a "Nanchang Post Office" tombstone, a Kiukiang bilingual bisected c.d.s., and a Shanghai bilingual transit c.d.s. It was then transferred to the Shanghai French P.O. for sea route dispatch to the United Kingdom. The Kian Post Office two-grid circular postmark is a special format postmark, and there are very few surviving real-world examples. This piece is in excellent condition.