Sale 74 Hong Kong & Treaty Ports

Foochow, 1880 (Dec.) envelope from Shanghai to American Consul Wingate, Foochow (22.12), endorsed "pr Kwangtung" (in different handwriting from the address) bearing CC watermark 5c. blue, cancelled "B62", with "Edward Schellhass & Co./Shanghai" blue oval sender's cachet and "Hong Kong/B" c.d.s. (17.12) adjacent and "Foochowfoo/A" arrival c.d.s. on reverse, apparently carried privately to Hong Kong and then posted, the earliest recorded usage (per Gurevitch) of this very scarce stamp on cover (28 recorded by him), a very fine and unusual interport usage from the Wingate correspondence. Ex "Alicante". S.G. 29 (Z334).
Estimate HK$ 10,000 - 12,000