INAUGURAL AUCTION

1879 Shanghai Domestic,. 1879 (20 Nov) Shanghai to Peking. Cover bearing a 3ca Large Dragon stamp (thin paper, perf 12½) with left margin, cancelled by Customs Shanghai cds. Addressed to William Hancock, I-G of Customs. Annotated “rcvd 28 Nov 79”. Holcombe Cert.    

1879年, 上海寄北京関韓威禮, 貼大龍3分銀郵票。