A collection to intoxicate the specialist, mostly Amoy and Kewkiang issues in large blocks, part- or full sheets, each on a homemade annotated quadrille page, with many of the Amoy issues' setting types identified; among the items included are a ½¢ Amoy First Issue first plate sheet of 40, a set of blocks of the same largely reconstructing a sheet with regular ABCDE setting, a 1¢ Amoy First Issue first plate block of 32; Kewkiang 2¢ and 10¢ complete sheets (two each), a 1¢ Chefoo complete sheet of 40 (partially separated), plus three stockpages of singles or blocks of Amoy, Chefoo, Chinkiang, Foochow, Hankow, I Chang, Kewkiang and Wuhu issues (including some Postage Dues); all but a couple mint and generally fresh and sound, Fine to Very Fine with better, inspect.
Estimate HK$ 4,000 - 5,000. Est. HK$4,000-5,000 (Image1)

Est. HK$4,000-5,000

Nice selection of seven items, interesting group of "better" items, comprising Amoy ½¢ with papermaker's watermark (Chan #LA1a), plus two mint 2¢ blue Type I "no dot" varieties, an Amoy ½¢ red Postage Due overprint imperforate-at-bottom variety; ½¢ black and ½¢ green Wuhu First Issue imperforate pairs (Chan #LW1a & LW2 var); plus a 1¢ red Chinkiang First Issue proof (faults), generally Fine to Very Fine, nice group for the specialist.
Estimate HK$ 1,500 - 2,000. Est. HK$1,500-2,000 (Image1)

Est. HK$1,500-2,000

Chungking, 1894, 2ca to 24ca Third Issue complete, imperforate plate proofs (Scott 3-7 var. Livingston 3P-7P), a splendid set of bottom margin horizontal pairs in issued colors on thick paper stock, without gum as issued; few spots of very trivial light wrinkling, Very Fine, a most attractive set.
Estimate HK$ 5,000 - 6,000. Est. HK$5,000-6,000 (Image1)

Est. HK$5,000-6,000

Foochow, 1895, First Issue, ½¢ blue (Chan LF1. Scott 1), a lovely and striking used example, cancelled by bold, full strike of scarce Wenchow seal cancel along with matching partial Customs c.d.s. in red, Very Fine.
Estimate HK$ 800 - 1,000. Est. HK$800-1,000 (Image1)

Est. HK$800-1,000

1865, Large Dragon (Antique Numerals, "CANDAREENS" plural), 8ca gray green, Chinese character "mace" for "candareens" (Chan LS7. Scott 7. Livingston 6), Printing 19, cancelled by bold red "Local Post Office Shanghai" small garter, Chow Type SLP-3; stamp with various faults, yet an attractive and rare used item, unrecorded on this printing in Chow, Fine to Very Fine.
Estimate HK$ 6,000 - 8,000. Est. HK$6,000-8,000 (Image1)

Est. HK$6,000-8,000

1866, Large Dragon (Modern Numerals, "CANDAREENS" plural), 2ca gray, printing 51 (Chan LS30a. Scott 31. Livingston 37), fresh; tight margins, Fine to Very Fine. Scott $225 (HK$ 1,730).
Estimate HK$ 1,000 - 1,200. Est. HK$1,000-1,200 (Image1)

Est. HK$1,000-1,200

1866, Large Dragon (Modern Numerals, "CANDAREENS" plural), 3ca red brown (Chan LS31. Scott 32. Livingston 38), printing 55, with customary horizontal paper split along top compartment line, cancelled by red "Local Post Office Shanghai" red garter, fresh, Fine, Chow #SLP-3, very scarce thus.
Estimate HK$ 4,000 - 5,000. Est. HK$4,000-5,000 (Image1)

Est. HK$4,000-5,000

1891, Double Dragons, 5¢ carmine pink, watermark upright (Chan LS132. Scott 136), pane of 50, pristine mint, o.g., all but a few stamps never hinged, Very Fine, a lovely multiple.
Estimate HK$ 1,400 - 1,800. Est. HK$1,400-1,800 (Image1)

Est. HK$1,400-1,800

1893, Barclay & Fry issues, imperforate plate proofs, lovely, high quality selection of 27, watermarked or unwatermarked, nearly all in issued colors; comprises the 1893 Coat-of-Arms issue, the Mercury issue and the Postage Due issue, fresh, Very Fine, an excellent, mostly all-different selection.
Estimate HK$ 3,200 - 3,800. Est. HK$3,200-3,800 (Image1)

Est. HK$3,200-3,800

Wei Hai Wei, 1899, Second Issue, 5¢ olive green (Chan LWH4. Scott 4), a lovely bottom left corner margin pair, fresh, part o.g.; the right stamp with natural pre-printing paper wrinkle, still Very Fine.
Estimate HK$ 1,500 - 2,000. Est. HK$1,500-2,000 (Image1)

Est. HK$1,500-2,000