Lot 345
Hong Kong, 1865, Queen Victoria, 12¢ pale greenish blue, Crown CC watermark, strip of 3 and single (wing margin), cancelled by black "B62" cancels and tied by transit markings on envelope bearing HONG KONG SP 15 1868 cds, blue Shanghai cds on the reverse, red London transit and BOSTON AM PKT and manuscript "via Marseilles", addressed to Boston. Very rare.
SG 12. (Scott 15a).
Estimate $2,000 - 2,500
There was no example of the single 48¢ rate in Ishikawa and only one other cover bearing the Shanghai cds. This cover bears the rarest of the 12¢ shades .
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