Hong Kong. 1890. Ship Markings. San Francisco. This ia an American obliteration used at San Francisco on mail arriving at that port without a cancellation.
Hong Kong. 1890. Ship Markings. San Francisco. This is an American obliteration used at San Francisco on mail arriving at the port without a cancellation.
Hong Kong. 1890. Ship Markings. San Francisco. This ia an American obliteration used at San Francisco on mail arriving at this port without a cancellation. Very fine.
Hong Kong. 1886. Hong Kong 'Paid-All' on twelve cents deep blue. Lovely colour.
Hong Kong. 1886. Hong Kong 'Paid-All' on Fiscal 'one dollar fifty cents' pale green. Superb.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1870. A superb example of SG 9f, 4c slate perf 12 1/2 cancelled by B/62 obliterator. Very fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1880. Shanghai S/1 in blue on 48c carmine. Very attractive.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1877. Shanghai 'S1' obliterator on 16c yellow. Superb.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1877. Shanghai 'S1' obliterator ( type 4) on 16c yellow. Superb.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1886. Shanghai cds on 48c brown. A scarce stamp used in Shanghai. Superb and very scarce.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1885. Foochow F/1 on 16c yelllow (defect).
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). Shanghai S/1 obliterator on 48c brown. Scarce stamp used in Shanghai.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1885. Shanghai S/1 on 10c mauve with inverted wmk.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). Shanghai S/1 on 10c on 20c blue. Very fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1893. Amoy date stamp on five cents blue.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). Amoy date stamp on 14c on thirty cents mauve. Very scarce so fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1893. Amoy date stamp on ten cent purple/red.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1886. Amoy date stamp on 10c green. Very fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1870. A superb example of the Amoy D27 obliterator on SG9, 4c grey.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1885. Shanghai S/1 on 10c on 16c orange. Very fine.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1885. Shanghai S/1 on 10c on 12c blue. Scarce.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1880. Two cents brown cancelled by F/1 of Foochow.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1885. Ten cents mauve cancelled by N/1 obliterator of Ningpo. Scarce.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1885. Ten cents violet cancelled by 'N/1' obliterator of Ningpo. Scarce.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1901. Part envelope bearing Hong Kong SG 33, 2c carmine (4), SG 35, 5c bule (2) and SG 56, 2c green cancelled by Hoihow/ C date stamp (Webb Type G). Lovely item only used in 1901.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1880. Nice strike of Swatow 'S2' obliterator on Provisional 10c on 24c green. Scarce used in Swatow.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). 1885. Five cents blue cancelled by S/2 obliterator of Swatow.
Hong Kong. (Treaty Ports). Shanghai 1 dollar on 96c grey. Very fine.
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.