Hong Kong. Treaty Ports. 1921. British Post Office in Hong Kong. 1921. Canton cds on 12c purple/yellow. Very fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1904. Boxwed Port Edward. Wei Hai Wei. date stamp in violet. Fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1904. Hoihow cds on KEV11 ten cents blue/purple.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1911. Ningpo cds on 50c purple and yellow.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1906. Ningpo cds on 50c purple and green.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1911. Foochow cds on 30c purple and orange.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1914. Ningpo cds on KGV 2c green. Fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1904. Ningpo cds on KEV11 4c purple/red. Superb.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1887. Hankow cds on 10c green. Very fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1891. Amoy cds on 14c on thirty cent purple. Superb.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1885. Five cent blue (SG 29) cancelled by Amoy cds. Very fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1884. Two cents brown cancelled by Amoy cds. Fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1862. No wmk 18c mauve canceled by A/1 obliterator. Very fine and scarce on 1st issue.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1865. Amoy/ Paid in red cds with blue B/62 obliterator. Very fine and scarce combination.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1889. Hankow cds on 20c on 10c orange. Very fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1880. Hankow D/29 obliterator on 10c mauve. Scarce.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). Hankow. 1880. Provisional SG Z446 10c on 24c black obliterator 'D29' with 'S1' in black. Nice combination. Scarce.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1885. Hankow cds on ten cents blue-green. Superb.
Hong Kong. (Ningpo Treaty Ports). 1863. A superb strike of the 'N 1' obliterator in blue on the Crown C.C. 4c grey. Scarce.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1897. Superb example of SG 35, 5c blue with upright Hoihow/C date stamp.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1900. Five cents yellow with Foochow cds. Very fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1891. $1 on 96c purple/red used in Foochow. Scarce use in Foochow.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1892. Amoy cds on 14c on thirty cents mauve. Very fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1891. Amoy cds on 14c on thirty cents deep mauve.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1877. Foochow F/1 obliterator on 16c yellow. Scarce stamp used in Foochow.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1885. Foochow F/1 obliterator on 5 cents on 18c mauve.
Hong Kong. 1885. Two cents carmine cancelled by F/1 obliterator of Foochow. Very fine.
Hong Kong. 1893. Two cent carmine and five cent blue tied to small piece by French octagonal paquebot 'Ligne N Paq. Fr. No 2' date stamp. Very attractive item.
Hong Kong. 1897. Ten cent purple/ red cancelled by octagonal 'Ligne N Paq. Fr. No 4' date stamp tied to small piece.
Hong Kong. 1907. KEV11 4c red/purple tied to small piece by Deutsche Seepost date stamp.
Hong Kong. 1888. Ten cent green tied to small piece by 'Deutsche Seepost/ Ost Asiatsche/ Hauptlinie' date stamp '5/7 88'. Very nice item.
Hong Kong. 1907. KEV11 Hong Kong two cent green cancelled by Imperial China 2c green. Very fine
Hong Kong. 1885. numeral '38' in dotted lozange. Superb French maritime postmark.
Hong Kong. 1885. Ten cent green canceled by French paquebot 'Ligne N Paq. Fr. No 1' date stamp. A lovely full strike. Very scarce.
Hong Kong. (British Post Offices In Yokohama). Crown CC 16c yellow with Very fine 'Y/1' obliterator.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1901. Liu Kung Tau oval on 50c on 48c violet. Very scarce.
Hong Kong. Treaty Ports. 1914. Shanghai Br. date stamp on KEV11 30c orange and mauve (pair). Very fine.
Hong Kong. Treaty Ports. 1893. Shanghai cds on Stamp Duty $3 mauve.
Its a real pleasure to add a magnificent selection of French Colonies from Africa, Asia, The Caribbean and Oceania. Very fine pre-stamp, British Post Office, Charged Mail, Advice of Receipt, Printed Matter and postage due mail. A lovely selection of censor mail, some with five or six censor cachets and labels, routed Trans-Africa, two Ocean or over the Atlantic with some unusual destinations.
A few items from the Dr. Edward Grabowski collection, this amazing sale sold in three parts by Spink. Also interesting Tahiti and New Caledonia from Tony Eastgate's life time work.
Over the next few months we hope to add many items to grace the finest collections.
A strong area of stock is our China from Imperial to WW2 with many fine censor covers and Air Transits. A good selection of the overseas Post Offices, Austrian, British, French, Japanese and Russian with offices in Manchuria. Many mixed combinations, I.P.O's .
Coming soon the John Marc Sitarek accumulation of China, French Post Office and Indo-China with magnificent French Detachment in the Boxer Campaign covers.
John Marc also had a fine selection of the Chinese Labour Force which are not often seen, he built this selection over thirty years. One of the darker aspects of World War One was the plight of 12,000 Chinese workers who were recruited by the British Army from the North of China in 1916 to serve on the battle front in France as labourers, trench diggers, munitions carriers, mine disarmers and corpse bearers under often inhumane conditions. A large number were also struck down by the devastating Spanish flue of 1918.