1996, 50th Birthday of Sultan Paduka Seri Baginda, $250 souvenir sheet, group of five (Scott 500 footnote), each Post Office fresh with bright, full gold; sequentially numbered 0521-0525, o.g., never hinged, Very Fine. Est. HK$4,000-5,000
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Postcard Stamp, 1879 Queen Victoria 3¢ on 16¢ yellow & 5¢ on 18¢ lilac (Scott 35A, 35B. Yang P1, P2), each bright and clean, without gum as soaked from original postcard; 18¢ with a few shortish perforations at top, still Fine to Very Fine, with 2007 Sismondo certific
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1891, Queen Victoria, 10¢ purple on red (Scott 44 (LKC30). SG 38 (Z569). Yang 40), Crown CA watermark, the stamp beautifully centered with a complete, socked-on-the-nose "Hoihow/C/MY20/96" postmark, Very Fine to Extremely Fine, a lovely Treaty Port use/cancel. Est. HK$800-1,000
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Postal-Fiscal, 1880, 12¢ on $10 rose carmine (Scott 50. Yang F4), with crisp color and clean impression, perforations clear of design all around, without gum; light corner perforation crease top left, Fine to Very Fine. Est. HK$2,400-3,000
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1891, Queen Victoria Jubilee, 2¢ carmine (Scott 66. Yang C1), Second Printing, positions 2-8-2, vertical strip of 3, with wonderfully deep clor and clean perforations, both position 2 with thick "B", position 8 with broken "o" and full "g" in "Kong" & nick in "J"; top stamp with paper hi
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1910, King Edward VII, $2 carmine red & black (Scott 105. Yang 98), Multiple Crown CA watermark, sparkling single from left of the pane, o.g., never hinged, Very Fine. Est. HK$1,200-1,600
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1935, 5¢ King George V Silver Jubilee, extra flagstaff variety (Scott 148 var. SG 134a), on top stamp of vertical pair from the bottom left corner of the sheet; stamps well-centered with a light "Victoria/22 NO/35/Hong Kong" cancel (day particularly faint), Very Fine. SG £275 (HK$
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1938-52, King George VI, 1¢-$10 complete (Scott 154-166A), sound with bright colors; a few with lightly toned gum, $1 orange and green with a few spots on face, Very Fine overall. Est. HK$2,000-2,400
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1938-52, King George VI, 1¢-$10 complete (Scott 154-166A vars. SG 140//162a), a bright and fresh set with Gibbons minor numbers offering a range of color, perforation and paper varieties; includes better such as Gibbons #156b, 160ab horizontal pair, and 162a, in addition to the basic set
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1941, Centenary of British Occupation complete, trio of First Day Covers (Scott 168-173), each complete set on all red, green or blue cacheted Registered covers—all three cachet colors—addressed locally, Very Fine. Est. HK$1,200-1,600
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1855 (Aug.) letter sheet from the U.S. to Canton, showing "Boston/Am Pkt" c.d.s. (Aug. 21) on reverse, "Paid" unframed handstamp and London "Paid" c.d.s. (Sept. 3) both in red on front, with "Hong Kong" double-arc datestamp (Oct. 26) on reverse, rated "43" in pencil and overwritten "(page)
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1878 (Jan. 31), Cover from Canton to Washington, DC, remarkably fresh and clean 12¢-rate cover, postage paid by single Hong Kong 12¢ blue Queen Victoria, tied by light "C1" killer with "A/Canton" postmark alongside; addressed to Capt. Richard Law at the Navy Department; reverse with
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1909 (Nov. 16), Cover from Ningpo to London, franked by bright and sound 4¢ King Edward VII, tied by clear "Ningpo/C" postmark; backflap missing, light vertical crease from contents not affecting the stamp, Fine to Very Fine. Est. HK$5,000-6,000
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1878 (May 21), Mourning cover from Yokohama to Pembrokeshire, South Wales, attractive cover franked by Hong Kong 12¢ blue Queen Victoria to pay the single rate, tied by "Y1" killer with "Yokohama/A" origin postmark alongside and "via Southampton" endorsement at top left; reverse bears "H
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1885, Kiungchow oval postmark on incoming postal card from the US to Hoihow, Hainan Island, US 1¢ postal card (#UX5) uprated by 1¢ Franklin (#206), sent "via Hong Kong" to Hoihow; cancelled only on arrival in Kiungchow (3 times!) by both large diameter Kiung-chow circular postmark (
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1895 (Jan. 10), Early Registered cover from Hong Kong to Colchester, England, endorsed "per English mail/'Pekin'" and franked with single and vertical pair of Hong Kong 10¢ violet on red Queen Victorias, the pair tied by Hong Kong postmark, the single by the boxed "Hong Kong G.P.O." Regi
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1901 (Oct. 21), Hong Kong Message card sent from Amoy to Paris, France, bearing bilingual Amoy origin postmark, the 4¢ on 3¢ card cancelled by "Victoria/OC 23/01/Hong Kong" and well-struck boxed I.P.O. handstamp; two different paper labels front and back, Fine to Very Fine. Est. HK$
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1900 (Feb. 26), Cover from Canton to Vechta, Oldenburg, Germany, reverse franked with horizontal pairs of ½c and 2c, plus singles of 4c and 1c CIP Coiling Dragons cancelled or tied by bilingual Amoy postmarks, the front bearing a vertical strip of five 2¢ Hong Kong Queen Victorias
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1901 (Nov. 13), Hong Kong Message Card from Swatow to Basel, Switzerland, 4¢ on 3¢ brown Queen Victoria Message half of Message-Reply card, whose journey began in Swatow Nov. 13, arriving in Hong Kong and receiving a Victoria cancel the following day along with a red boxed I.P.O. ha
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Hong Kong, Expansive Used Stock, 1863-1973, many, many hundreds—if not a couple thousand—stamps neatly arranged on 24 pages (48 sides) of a 28-page/56-side stockbook, running from Queen to Queen; while a handful of mint/unused stamps are sprinkled in, the overwhelming majority of
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1901 (May 14), "C.E.F." overprinted on India ½c entire to Wei-Hai-Wei, canceled by "Base Office/Dep./C" c.d.s. and "B.R.A." surcharge 5c on ½c brown, canceled by "Railway Post Office/Tientsin" circular undated handstamp in violet, Fine to Very Fine. Est. HK$1,200-1,500
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1942, Sultan Ismail, 10c violet, revalued to 25c with "Fiscal" overprint and Sunigawa seal (Singer 58), face-fresh and nicely centered, the red overprints clear and clean, tropicalized o.g., Very Fine, unpriced (bulleted) in Singer. Est. HK$1,600-2,000
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