Lot# 5219

The 2024 Winter Auction - Sale 344 (December 14 - December 17, 2024)   December 14 - December 17 2024, Hong Kong

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Lot# 5219
Starting Price: 20,000 HK$
Hammer Price: 20,000 HK$
1896 (Dec 10) Peking to Venezuela combination postal card, a rare destination,

Germany 10pf. Postal stationery card to German Legation in Venezuela (Caracas), bearing Dowager 2ca green, cancelled by Peking seal in blue, match "IG of CUSTOMS/PEKING" double-ring cds, "CUSTOMS/TIENTSIN" (11.12.1896 on reverse), and "CUSTOMS/SHANGHAI" (16.12.1896) transit cds, the indicia cancelled by Shanghai German P.O. cds (22.12.1896), very fine and fantastic usage, especially so on German UPU stationery card, to this exotic South American destination, very rare for such usage. Illustrated in Tony Kwan, volume I, p.414. (Chans 23).

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