Small group of earlies including 1885-88 Small Dragons 1ca mint and 1ca 3ca & 5ca used, 1894 Dowager with overprints including '10 cents' on 9c green, 1897 Red Revenues overprints 'one cent' '2 cents' & '4/cents', a few later issues to 1950, also Treaty Ports Ichang 1894 set * (3m damaged), Kewkiang 1896 'ONE/1/CENT.' on 15c *, etc, condition mixed but many fine, Cat £2500+ (2012). (96)

Estimate AU$400

Small collection on pages mostly used with Small Dragon 3c lilac, 1897 Surcharges '10/Cents' on 9c yellow green with mis-placed perforations and partial 'Cents' overprint visible at top of stamp, Red Revenues 'one cent' unused and '2/cents' fine used, then Imperial Post, Junks & later issues including oveprints, early PRC, plus some Local Posts, Provinces, Manchuria, Taiwan, etc, condition variable but mostly fine. (100s)

Estimate AU$400

JAPANESE POST OFFICES: Japanese Overprints on picture postcards comprising two with 1½s blue tied 'SHANGHAI' cds, one of 'Foreign Settlement, Soochow' apparently used locally but with indistinct cds, also comic card with 1½s violet tied 1908 'CANTON/IJPO' cds, plus three 1906 Moji, Japan vignette cards sent to China each with 'SHANGHAI/IJPO' arrival cds in violet on view side. (7)

Grade A

Estimate AU$100

1917 Danish postcard to Shanghai via Siberia with 10o red tied by 'NASTRED' cds, light Russian '..../6R SKCN' train (?) cancel, bold No 17 boxed censor cachet in violet and Russian Post Offices in China 'SHANGHAI POSTE RUSSE/4 7 17' arrival cds alongside.

Grade A (Image1)

Estimate AU$150

KOREAN WAR: 1953 cover to South Korean soldier "Pak Ki Sok, 23 RO Regt, AP 248, SP 84 138 TOE, Battalion French" serving with the French Volunteers, South Korea 500w Tombstone pair tied by local cancel and also by censor chop in violet, French 'POSTES AUX ARMEES/2-4/1953/T.O.E.' [= Théatre des Opérations Extérieures] b/s, a couple of very minor blemishes. The French Battalion was attached to the US 23rd Infantry Regiment and comprised around 3,000 troops; mail to the French troops is scarce, all the more so to a local volunteer serving with them. The Korean War Armistice was signed on 27.07.1953.

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$400