Sale #46 - Northeastern Provinces of China Cancellations and Hung Hsien Empire

China, 1898 (13 Feb.) Great Britain 1d. postal stationery card to Newry, Ireland via Shanghai (24.2) and Hong Kong (3.3, on reverse) bearing I.C.P. 1c., cancelled by "Newchwang" dollar dater, fine and unusual; also 1898 (19 Mar.) piece bearing I.C.P. 4c. and 5c. pair cancelled by pakua and dollar dater, in combination with Hong Kong 10c. cancelled at Shanghai, and 1898 (9 Dec.) piece bearing I.C.P. 5c. cancelled by dollar dater, fine to very fine strikes.
Estimate HK$ 20,000 - 25,000
References: Explore Dollar Daters (1897-1913), Taipei: Philatelic Writer's Club, 2007, p. 27.
From the beginning of the Chinese Imperial Post, there was a regulation that "mail franked with unobliterated foreign postage for foreign mailing must be accepted without need for domestic postage." In this case, the Chinese 1 cent stamp was to pay the winter rate surcharge on postcard from cities north of Chefoo to Shanghai.