1800 (May 26) Entire letters written by James Crichton from Canton to his mother and brother in Scotland, both enclosed within a single lettersheet addressed to Sanquar endorsed "P. Glatton", charged 3/9, with a fine oval "Ship Letter / (crown) / LONDON". Crichton acknowledges letters of March and May 1799 received by the "Duke of Burcleugh" in January, tells of his financial success achieved at the factory at Canton as a result of which he...
Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
By: Argyll Etkin Ltd
Argyll Etkin Ltd Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
The Martin Lynes Collections of Forces Mail, Postal Mechanisation and Holy Land; British Post Offices Abroad from the Mike Kitson Collection; USA, Canada & West Indies Wreck Mail from the Collection of Robin Gwynn, RDP; Boer War; fine Antarctica; Worldwide Postal History from a retiring dealers stock; KUT Polish Camp Mail; Extensive G.B and Irish Postal History with Registered Mail, Railway Letters, Uniform Penny Post and Irish T.P.Os.
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Lot #1006 - China
1900 (Jan 18) Cover to Scotland "via P. Arthur & Moscow" with "H.M.S AMPHRITRITE" printed on the flap, bearing Russian P.O in China 10k cancelled at Chefoo (a second strike below) with a China 1c tied by violet "LIU KUNG TAU / WEI HAI WEI" c.d.s, two light vertical folds (one crossing the China 1c), otherwise fine, an attractive combination cover. Photo on Page 152.
Suggested price: £ 600-700
Lot #1007 - China
c1900-12 Covers and cards including 1905 card with 1c (faults) tied by "LIGNE N / PAQ. FR No 2" datestamp, 1912 cover from Manchuria, c.1910 card with 2c tied by "MONGTZE" c.d.s, etc., a few faults. (8).
Suggested price: £ 200-240
Lot #1008 - China
1905-08 Picture postcards all to a Miss Dora Lincoln in Shanghai, posted within China (23) or from G.B (28), Australian States (2), Japan (27), Italy (2), Belgium (5), USA (2), France, Germany, Russia (9) or Hong Kong, many with arrival marks of the British, German, Japanese, Russian, U.S, French or Chinese post offices, or the Shanghai Local Post. (101).
Suggested price: £ 400-500
Lot #1009 - China
1907-17 Red band cover, picture postcards (12) and postal stationery postcards (2) including cards from the Japanese P.O at Changchun (2) or Port Arthur (2), Peking-Moukden T.P.O (3), Pukow Ku-Tientsin T.P.O (2), also 1903-23 picture postcards from Japan (17) or Korea. (33).
Suggested price: £ 150-200
Lot #1010 - China
1919-79 Covers and cards (55) and fronts (3), mainly pre-1950 but with some useful later Peoples Republic period, scarcer earlier communist issues, censored mail, etc. An interesting lot, viewing recommended. (58).
Suggested price: £ 500-600
Lot #1011 - China
1926 Cover sent within Shanghai franked 1c, then redirected to England, with scarce boxed "Complimentary postage / to be collected (221⁄2) ctms.", 1⁄2d and 2d postage dues applied upon arrival at Manchester.
Suggested price: £ 120-150
Lot #1012 - China
Airmails. 1929-47 Commercial airmail covers, including 1929 Shanghai to Hankow cover franked 1c, 4c and 1925 redrawn design 15c air stamp, etc. Also a few air mail labels. (16 covers + 23 labels).
Suggested price: £ 120-150
Lot #1013 - China
1936-49 Covers including 1949 cover from Hankow to London bearing Central & South China issues (S.G. CC68, 71, 78, 87B); 1940 air mail from Shanghai to London with violet "Diverted by air via U.S.A owing to / suspension of Air France Service" but still censored in France; 1941 air mail cover from Chuanhsien to GB with Chungking transit c.d.s and violet "NOT OPENED BY CENSOR / 29 / BURMA"; 1942 registered cover from Chungking to London...
Lot #1014 - China
Incoming Mail. 1907-52 Covers and cards (13) and a front all to China including 1929 card from Iceland franked 20aur with an Amoy arrival c.d.s, 1934 underpaid cover from Netherlands Indies diverted from air mail, etc. (14).
Suggested price: £ 300-350
Lot #1015 - China
Japanese Occupation of North China. 1942 Unused 4c postal stationery card with Japanese Occupation overprint, bearing a 4c on 8c stamp (corner fault) below, a very scarce item of postal stationery.
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #1016 - China
Foreign P.O/C.E.F. 1900-35 Covers and cards including stampless covers from French Naval forces in China in 1900 or in Indo-China, U.S and British P.O in Shanghai, C.E.F, German P.O in Chefoo, Manchukuo, U.S.S "Augusta" Shanghai to Tsintao duplex, also a few C.E.F pieces, a front from British F.P.O 1 and an illustrated WW2 airgraph from US A.P.O 430 at Kweilin. (10+).
Suggested price: £ 100-120
Lot #1017 - China
1923 $1 Booklet containing six panes of Second Peking printing definitives, one 3c pane of six and one 5c pane of four intact, the other four panes all with some stamps removed (comprising 5c single, three stamps removed; 1c block of four, two stamps removed; 3c pair, four stamps removed; and 3c block of five, one stamp removed), interleaving intact and the covers complete and fine. A rare booklet despite the removal of ten stamps. S.G. SB5...
Lot #1018 - China
Yunnan. 1933-34 Dr Sun Yat-Sen $5 green and scarlet, emblems with thick circles, with Peking overprint in black, in an unmounted mint marginal block of four with printers inscription "Engraved & Printed by Chung Hwa Book Co. Ltd", very fine. S.G. 51, £1,400+. Photo on Page 37.
Suggested price: £ 180-240
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