Lot# 7039

The 2023 Winter Auction - Sale 342   December 16th - 19th 2023, Hong Kong

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Lot# 7039
Starting Price: 6,000 HK$
Hammer Price: 7,000 HK$
9 Feb 1898, a very special and quite rare "NANKING / 9.2.98. / 南京郵政局" local datestamp used in a C.I.P. 1st series stationery card.

9 Feb 1898, a C.I.P. 1st series stationery card sent from Nanking to Shanghai, cancelled by a very rare 3-horizontal grid hand-written Nanking special datestamp: "NANKING / 9.2.98. / NANKING POST OFFICE". After departing Nanking, it was routed through the Shanghai Local Post Office system, where it received an English circular postmark of "SHANGHAI LOCAL POST / FE 10, 98". The presence of the Nanking three-line bilingual hand-written special large oval circular stmap is rare and distinctive.

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