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Shanghai. 1866-93, Selection of some key values (S.G. 36, 69, 70, 85, 101a, 103a, 113, D137, 141, 150/151, ca. £3'500).
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Chinkiang. 1894-95, Selection of 15 better stamps in exceptional quality (Mi. 1 IIA (LH), D1-D8 (LH), P1II-P6II, inverted overprints mint n.h).
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1894-95, Selection of 39 stamps, incl. better (S.G. 1/7, 15/22, etc.), also inverted overprints, mostly mint lightly hinged.
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Chungking. 1893 2c red perf.11 1/2 on thin greyish paper, mint block of eight, typical brown streaky gum, very fine and scarce multiple (S.G. £1'200+, Chan $752+).
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Hankow. 1896-97, Selection of 10 stamps (Mi. 15-17, 23-24 mint l.h., P6-P10 used).
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Ichang. 1894-96 selection of 16 stamps, mint and used, complete in main numbers plus some varieties, very good quality.
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Kewkiang. 1894-96, Selection of 41 stamps, mint and used, including better, varieties, colour shades, also a very rare inverted overprint Mi. P7 var (unlisted).
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1894 10c black on yellow-ochre mint n.h. complete sheet of 50 with selvedge, fine and scarce.
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Wei Hai Wei. 1898 2c black on scarlet unused, light vertical bend, very good quality, scarce.
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1899 (9 Jan) 5c. yellowish green, horizontal pair imperf. between, a few shortish perfs at foot, fresh unused with gum; a local post rarity.
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1882 Letter with content (regarding Shanghai stock of Malwa and Opium) sent from Shanghai to Bombay, carried by steamer "Bokhara" (Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company).
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1888 Round the world cover from Nikolajevsk bearing Russia 1884 Imperial Arms 7 kop. blue tied by faint NIKOLAEVSK (17.8.88) cds sent to HAVANT, GB with arrival (Nov 9) and new franking by Great Britain Jubilee 1887 4d. adhesive, despatched Nov 15 via Canada with Windsor Ontario (Nov 29) and San Fra
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1878-83 Large Dragon. 1878 thin paper, 2 1/2mm spacing, 1ca green, 3ca brown-red and 5ca yellow, mint large part o.g., odd shortish perf, fine and fresh.
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1894 Dowager. 1894 60th Birthday of Dowager Empress, set of 9 to 24ca (first printing) large part OG, the 24ca with small surface mark and most with some degree of toning; a scarce set.
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1897 60th Birthday of the Dowager Empress 5ca yellow from the unissued second printing, a little toned, scarce.
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1897 Red Revenues. 1897 2c on 3c deep red "small" surcharge as type 21, mint large part o.g. (heavy hinge), still very fresh.
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1897 Red Revenues $1 large surcharge on 3c deep red, mint part o.g. a trace of toning but well centred and good perfs.
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1897-1911 Imperial Post. 1902 (Nov 24) inland postal stationery card 1c "CHINESE IMPERIAL POST" with additional franking Coiling Dragon 1c orange and 2c red, tied by perfect strike of rare non-standard circular TSINANFU handstamp (without "sun and moon"), in combination with German postal ad
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1904, Diagonal bisected Coiling Dragon 2c red on piece genuine with cancelling cds, this provisional was in use only during June 1904, Chan Cat #136B $300, very fine, added as reference a forged Foochow "Postage 1c Paid" provisional.
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1907 (Jul 8) Registered picture postcard of Peking sent to Vienna, franked with a pair of 2c reds and a 10c green, tied by Peking cds , with Shanghai transit dated 13 July, with octagonal "Yokohama a Marseille" 19 July, a Beijing registered postmark is just distinguishable below the 2c stamp, with t
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Chinese Republic. 1912 (Mar) Shanghai "Republic" overprint mint set of 15 to $5, large part o.g. with some heavily hinged, all displaying fresh colour and fine appearance, scarce.
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1931-37 Dr Sun Second Issue 15c and 25c vert. pair on commercial cover sent registered from Tientsin to South Africa, fine and unusual destination.
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1932-34 Martyrs of the Revolution, Peking Printing, 40c orange in mint n.h. block of 9 with central stamp showing major re-entry variety with much of the design doubled, very fine and fresh (S.G. £600+)
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1945-48 Post War Inflation Period. 1946 Air CNC Surcharges $200 on $5 mint l.h. with inverted surcharge variety, very fine, only one sheet of 100 exist of this error (S.G. £600, Chan $500).
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North East Provinces. 1948 (Oct) Parcels Post $500'000 on $5'000'000 grey-lilac block of 4 fine, CTO by central Shanghai 17.11.48 cds, very fine.
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Sinkiang. 1921 25th Anniversary of Chinese national Post Service set of 4 in mint n.h. blocks of four, 1c with insignificant gum bend, very fine and scarce multiples, only 2'000 of the 10c were overprinted (S.G. £400+).
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1933-45, Balance of collection between S.G. 121 and 260, mostly mint lightly hinged, very high catalogue value.
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1930-36 Red Posts & Soviet Republic. 1932 Red Flag issue 3c green, unused no gum as issued, very fine and very rare; cert. CSS (2003) (S.G. £7'000).
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1932 Postage Due (redrawn) 1c brown unused with large margins, very fine and very rare (S.G. £10'000).
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East China. Central Jiangsu: 1944 deep blue (Junk) with magenta ovpt, reddish brown (torch) with magenta ovpt and red-orange (bird with envelope) with blue ovpt, unused, very fine and scarce set (S.G. £2'600).
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Jiangsu-Anhui Border area 1949 (29 Apr-May) Mao Tse-tung Nantong printing $2000 green horizontal pair printed both sides fine unused without gum as issued, scarce.
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1961 World Table Tennis miniature sheet, unused without gum as issued, post office fresh.
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1961 Table Tennis mini sheet on illustrated first day cover with commemorative cancel, sent to Germany, plus the same cover with the set of individual stamps tied by the same cancel, fine and scarce FDC.
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1968 Directives of Mao Tse-tung, mint NH se-tenant strip of five; one shortish perf and corner bend mentioned only for accuracy; a rare strip.
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1979-80 Small silk stockbook with mint n.h. sets incl. 8f Monkey (a little offset black in on gum), 1980 Masks set, 1979 Camellias set and 1979 Pilgrimage set.
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1980 (Feb 15) Illustrated first day cover with 8f Monkey tied by FDI cancel, unaddressed, fine and scarce.
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Italian Post Offices. 1917 2c orange-brown with surcharge double, mint n.h., with offset on reverse of the second strike, small tone spot, fine and scarce (Sassone €3'000).
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1944 (Feb 28) POW incoming postcard from the Swiss Catholic Mission sent to a Dutch citizen in Kamakura Shi on behalf of another Dutch citizen in La Haye, "RECEIVED WITH OUT STAMP / YOKOHAMA" hs and returned to sender, with the original filing card of the Mission, a rare WW2 document.
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1946-55 50ch violet imperf. complete sheet of 100, plenty of varieties, broken plates, colour shades, etc., no gum as issued, ex Dr. Maeda (Mi. €4'000+ for regular singles).
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1946-55 50ch violet perf.11 vertically in complete sheets of 100, plenty of varieties, broken plates, colour shades, etc., no gum as issued, also the perforation missing at left of the sheet, probably unique thus; ex Dr. Maeda.
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1960 12th Anniversary of the People's Army 5ch, first printing in rare marginal mint n.h. block of four with original gum, scarce.
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1960 12th Anniversary of the People's Army 5ch, second printing in rare marginal unused block of four, no gum as issued, scarce.
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Early 18th century archive of one over sized native cover with two attractive large red chops with Mongolian script all apparently from the Urton Postal service, in addition there are nine letters one with Russian negative seal and bilingual Russian and Mongolian, another showing large red chops in
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Early 18th century over sized native cover with three attractive large red chops with Mongolian script all apparently from the Urton Postal service, with decorative Mongolian script on both sides, some usual cover faults, an interesting and historical showpiece.
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Early 18th century over sized native cover with three attractive large red chops with Mongolian script all apparently from the Urton Postal service, with decorative Mongolian script on both sides, some usual cover faults, an interesting and historical showpiece.
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1933 2 tr. Rose-Carmine (10B8), setting Ib, unused complete sheet of 12, with large to very large sheet margin all round, an attractive multiple of these classic attractive primitive issues.
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Shanghai. China, Local Post Shanghai - 1866 12ca, master negative on film with black painted areas within the side tablets and around characters and symbols, as well as in the surround of the stamp design, such retouches made with the purpose of avoiding the light to diffuse laterally in the
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China, Local Post Shanghai - 1866 12ca, an impressive master negative cliché on film, produced in white, one of three known matrices or clichés and one of four known reproductions of any Shanghai Local Post by Sperati, these being all the items known for his territory; a unique negative cliché on fi
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China, Local Post Shanghai - 1866 12ca, glass support cliché in reddish brown and with image reversed, showing Sperati notes at top and base. Reproduction of any Shanghai Local Post by Sperati had not been recorded; this is the only known Sperati's glass cliché of Chinese philately.
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China - Local Post Shanghai - 1866: a glass support cliché showing the overprint “I CAND.” with Chinese lettering underneath, being a denomination of 1 candareen; the surcharge (which shows a damaged “D” on the known genuine examples) was printed in blue on stamps of the municipal post of Shanghai,
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China, Shanghai - Postmark, glass support cliché of French numeral cancellation 5104 of Shanghai, China, showing reversed image and a succinct manuscript annotation at base; a previously unrecorded item within the range of Sperati’s reproduction interests.
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1883, Third Printing, 3ca brown-red, opaque paper, well positioned, fine used cancelled by a scarce red Customs Kiukiang cds dated May 2nd 1885; signed Peter Holcombe.
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1871, Group of four 100m blue on laid paper including an unused horizontal pair with good margins, fresh colour, thinned to back although fine appearance, with two unused singles both have four margins and very vibrant colour, together with an example tied by forged cancel to piece, an attractive an
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1935, New Year Stamps, 1 1/2s rose-carmine, granite paper, miniature sheet of 20, mint n.h. beautifully centred, very fine and fresh (Mi €1400).
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1881, 1a, 2a and 4a imperf. unused, large margins, very fine and fresh, the 2a with cert. Hellrigl (1984), (Scott $775).
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1881, 1a, 2a and 4a imperf., large margins, tied to individual pieces by bold Kathmandu cancels, very fine and scarce used examples (Scott $1'400).
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This lot will be sold as number 50366B during the public auction.
1951 Korean War complete set of 22 unused imperf. mini sheets, without gum as issued, some with partial discolouration otherwise very fine, plus two perf. Italy singles, scarce.
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This lot will be sold as number 50366C during the public auction.
1952 Airmail set of 3 unused imperf. mini sheets, without gum as issued, 4200W with light bends, otherwise very fine and scarce, only 500 issued.
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This lot will be sold as number 50366D during the public auction.
1955 National Symbols 20H and 200H imperf. mini sheets, unused without gum as issued, 200H with light bend, 20H very fine, scarce with only 500 issued.
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This lot will be sold as number 50366A during the public auction.
1948-58, group of mint sets incl. 1948 Elections set of 5 (Mi. 29-33), 1948 Constitution (Mi. 37-38), 1950 Airmail, 1950 Independence, 1950 Elections and 1950 Unification (Mi. 65-71) and 1958 Christmas & New Year s
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This lot will be sold as number 50369A during the public auction.
1942 post card sent from Ulan-Bator to the Red Army on active service with 1932 20M red, Soviet foreign mail censorship, transit postmark, FPO 27.7.42 arrival, addressed to the PPS-46, the special army chemical bat
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