Chinese Local Posts (Kewkiang), Postage Dues : 1896 "Postage Due" overprint type II on 1c. black on white and 10c. black on yellow buff, fine unused with much original gum. Livingston D5-D6.
Estimate HK$ 3,000 - 4,000
Expertisation: Signed Livingston.
Sale #47 - The Elling O. Eide Collection of Local Posts (Part 2)
By: Interasia Auctions Limited
Interasia Auctions Limited Sale #47 - The Elling O. Eide Collection of Local Posts (Part 2)
Interasia’s November 1-4 auction of China, Hong Kong and Asian stamps and postal history will take place at the Excelsior Hotel in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong. The four day, 4,500-lot sale includes another outstanding offering of China and Hong Kong stamps and postal history, with important Ching Dynasty and Republic, substantial postal history, and large offerings of both People’s Republic and Liberated Areas. Hong Kong and Treaty Ports alone comprises over 650 lots and includes a mint Q.V. 96c. olive-bistre.
This Session is the final part of the Elling O. Eide Collection of Chinese Local Posts and includes rare proofs and artwork, along with issued stamp varieties and good postal history.
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Lot #4218 - chinese local posts hankow / ichang / kewkiang / nanking / shanghai private post
Lot #4219 - chinese local posts hankow / ichang / kewkiang / nanking / shanghai private post
Chinese Local Posts (Kewkiang), 1895 (5 May) ½c. postal stationery card from Alicia Little to Shanghai (7.5), cancelled by "Kewkiang/Local Post" oval h.s. in magenta and showing "Shanghai/Local Post/E" arrival c.d.s. in blue adjacent, very early usage. Livingston PC1.
Estimate HK$ 20,000 - 25,000
Provenance: Charles Goodwyn, Spink (Hong Kong), 20.11.01, lot 2446.
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Lot #4220 - chinese local posts hankow / ichang / kewkiang / nanking / shanghai private post
Chinese Local Posts (Kewkiang), 1895 (3 July) ½c. postal stationery card to Shanghai, cancelled by "Kewkiang/Local Post" oval h.s. in magenta, fine. Livingston PC1.
Estimate HK$ 5,000 - 6,000
Provenance: Charles Goodwyn, Spink (Hong Kong), 20.11.01, lot 2447.
Lot #4221 - chinese local posts hankow / ichang / kewkiang / nanking / shanghai private post
Chinese Local Posts (Kewkiang), 1895 (14 Aug.) ½c. postal stationery card to Hankow (17.8), cancelled by "Kewkiang/Local Post" oval h.s. in violet and showing "Hankow/Local Post/C" arrival c.d.s. in violet-blue adjacent, fine. Livingston PC1.
Estimate HK$ 6,000 - 8,000
Lot #4222 - chinese local posts hankow / ichang / kewkiang / nanking / shanghai private post
Chinese Local Posts (Kewkiang), 1895 (18 Dec.) ½c. postal stationery card to Shanghai (20.12), cancelled by "Kewkiang/Local Post" oval h.s. in violet and showing "Shanghai/Local Post" arrival c.d.s. in blue adjacent, fine. Livingston PC1.
Estimate HK$ 3,000 - 4,000
Lot #4223 - chinese local posts hankow / ichang / kewkiang / nanking / shanghai private post
Chinese Local Posts (Kewkiang), An unused (3) and used selection of the ½c. postal stationery card, the used card (2.4.96) is addressed to Wuchang with "Hankow" arrival c.d.s., creased and heavy tropicalisation. Livingston PC1.
Estimate HK$ 3,000 - 4,000
Lot #4224 - chinese local posts hankow / ichang / kewkiang / nanking / shanghai private post
Chinese Local Posts (Nanking), 1891 (Dec.) envelope (opened out for display) to Mount Pleasant, Ohio (25.1.92) via San Francisco (20.1.92) and Chicago (23.1.92), showing on reverse very fine strike of "Local Post Agency/Nanking" bilingual large garter origin h.s. in blue, and bearing on front U.S. 5c., cancelled by bars, with "U.S. Postal Agency/Shanghai" oval d.s. (18.12) in violet adjacent, very fine usage of the Nanking garter...
Lot #4225 - chinese local posts hankow / ichang / kewkiang / nanking / shanghai private post
Chinese Local Posts (Nanking), 1896 (20 Sept.) first issue imperforate plate proofs on stout wove gummed paper 1c. rose and 2c. grey-green horizontal pairs, very fine. Livingston 2P, 3P.
Estimate HK$ 6,000 - 8,000
Lot #4226 - chinese local posts hankow / ichang / kewkiang / nanking / shanghai private post
Chinese Local Posts (Nanking), 1896 first issue 2c. grey-green horizontal pair imperforate vertically, fine and fresh unused with much original gum, vertical crease in margin between stamps. Livingston 3a var.
Estimate HK$ 4,000 - 5,000
Lot #4227 - chinese local posts hankow / ichang / kewkiang / nanking / shanghai private post
Chinese Local Posts (Nanking), 1896 (1 Sept.) "Local Post" notice for incidental expenses (60c.), signed by F.E. Meigs, the Local Post Agent, bearing first issue 1c. rose, uncancelled, presumably applied as a sample, with endorsement at foot "after September 20th we will use stamps", central vertical fold, nevertheless very fine postal document relating to the date of issue of the stamps. Livingston 2.
Estimate HK$ 6,000 - 8...
Lot #4228 - chinese local posts hankow / ichang / kewkiang / nanking / shanghai private post
Chinese Local Posts (Nanking), 1897 third issue imperforate 1c. rose complete sheet of thirty with large margins all around, fine and fresh mint, a few creases or minor faults in sheet margins only. A rare surviving complete sheet. Livingston 16.
Estimate HK$ 6,000 - 8,000
Lot #4229 - chinese local posts hankow / ichang / kewkiang / nanking / shanghai private post
Chinese Local Posts (Shanghai Private Post), 1905 (18 Nov.) local stationery envelope to Alfred E. Hippisley with impressed "Union Church/Shanghai" 20c. at top right corner, showing on reverse "Union Church/Bazaar" c.d.s. (17-18.11), oval intaglio "Paid" h.s. and "Shanghai/Local Post/K" arrival c.d.s. (18.11), with original matching letterhead enclosure, also an unused example (folded in places) of a similar stationery envelope, fine...
Lot #4230 - chinese local posts hankow / ichang / kewkiang / nanking / shanghai private post
Chinese Local Posts (Shanghai Private Post), 1922 Shanghai Light Horse 50c. red, cancelled by "Shanghai Light Horse/S.V.C./April 1922" double-ring d.s., very fine with full original gum.
Estimate HK$ 3,000 - 4,000
Lot #4231 - chinese local posts swatow / tunkuan / wuhu / hainan samah land post
Chinese Local Posts (Swatow), 1893 Shanghai Local Post Jubilee overprint 1c. cancelled by "Shanghai L.P.O./Swatow Agency" oval d.s. in violet with manuscript date "6/1/94", fine and rare cancellation.
Estimate HK$ 1,200 - 1,500
Provenance: E.N. Lane, Sotheby's and Corinphila (Hong Kong), 8.10.97, lot 1391.
References: Charles W. Dougan, The Shanghai Postal System. The Stamps and Postal History...
Lot #4232 - chinese local posts swatow / tunkuan / wuhu / hainan samah land post
Chinese Local Posts (Swatow), 1890(c.) fragment of envelope imprinted "Postal Service" in red, showing "Swatow L.P.O./One Cent/P S" provisional double-ring h.s. in black, "Swatow/One Cent" circular h.s. in black, and "Swatow Postal Service" double-ring h.s. in blue, fine and unique piece. Livingston B1var, B3.
Estimate HK$ 8,000 - 10,000
Provenance: E.N. Lane, Sotheby's and Corinphila (Hong Kong), 8.10.97,...
Lot #4233 - chinese local posts swatow / tunkuan / wuhu / hainan samah land post
Chinese Local Posts (Swatow), 1890(c.) "Swatow L.P.O./One Cent" circular handstamp in red (double-ring thin border) with small "Provisional" seriffed handstamp in black, printed on white mesh paper, very fine and fresh. Livingston B1.
Estimate HK$ 7,000 - 9,000
Provenance: E.N. Lane, Sotheby's and Corinphila (Hong Kong), 8.10.97, lot 1391.
References: Charles W. Dougan, The Shanghai Postal...
Lot #4234 - chinese local posts swatow / tunkuan / wuhu / hainan samah land post
Chinese Local Posts (Swatow), 1890(c.) "Swatow L.P.O./One Cent" circular handstamp in red (single-ring thick border) with large "Provisional" sans-serif handstamp in black, printed on white mesh paper, very fine and fresh. Livingston B2.
Estimate HK$ 7,000 - 9,000
Provenance: E.N. Lane, Sotheby's and Corinphila (Hong Kong), 8.10.97, lot 1391.
References: Charles W. Dougan, The Shanghai Postal...
Lot #4235 - chinese local posts swatow / tunkuan / wuhu / hainan samah land post
Chinese Local Posts (Swatow), 1890(c.) postal stationery envelope handstamped "Swatow Postal Service" and surcharged "Swatow L.P.O./One Cent" circular h.s., with "Provisional" overprint in black, unused, fine and rare. Livingston B2.
Estimate HK$ 30,000 - 40,000
According to our records, there are only two such complete stationery envelopes.
Lot #4236 - chinese local posts swatow / tunkuan / wuhu / hainan samah land post
Chinese Local Posts (Tungkuan), 1896(c.) "Tung Kun" 20 cash blue horizontal pair on laid paper, very fine unused, a very rare example of one of China's most mysterious stamps, whose origin and status have never been explained.
Estimate HK$ 30,000 - 40,000
Provenance: Group Captain C.F. Gordon
E.N. Lane, Sotheby's and Corinphila (Hong Kong), 8.10.97, lot 1323.
References: Charles W. Dougan...
Lot #4237 - chinese local posts swatow / tunkuan / wuhu / hainan samah land post
Chinese Local Posts (Wuhu), 1894 (26 Nov.) first issue imperforate ½c. (both) to 10c. fine to very fine and fresh unused, the five high values with much original gum. Livingston 1-10.
Estimate HK$ 1,500 - 2,000
Lot #4238 - chinese local posts swatow / tunkuan / wuhu / hainan samah land post
Chinese Local Posts (Wuhu), 1895 (2 Mar.) registered red-band envelope (opened out for display) to Kiukiang bearing on reverse Local Post ½c. black, ½c. yellow-green, 1c. brown (2) and 2c. orange-yellow (2), cancelled by "Wuhu/Local Post" c.d.s. in blue-violet, fine.
Estimate HK$ 2,000 - 2,500
Lot #4239 - chinese local posts swatow / tunkuan / wuhu / hainan samah land post
Chinese Local Posts (Wuhu), 1895 first design perf. 11 6c. blue, deep rich colour, conforming to the first printing shade, but with perforation 11 normally seen only in the second printing, very fine unused without gum. Unlisted in Livingston, Dougan, and Chan. A "missing link" between the first and second printings, of which only a few examples are known.
Estimate HK$ 1,200 - 1,500
Lot #4240 - chinese local posts swatow / tunkuan / wuhu / hainan samah land post
Chinese Local Posts (Wuhu), 1895 first issue "Postage Due" type III overprint 1c. brown and 2c. orange-yellow, the latter with overprint inverted, fine to very fine unused, the type III known on only a few values. Livingston D4d, D5Bvar.
Estimate HK$ 1,500 - 2,000
Lot #4241 - chinese local posts swatow / tunkuan / wuhu / hainan samah land post
Chinese Local Posts (Wuhu), 1909 hand drawn artist's essays for 1c. in blue, green and white gouache and 15c. in violet, brown and white gouache, stamp size on thin hard wove paper, lovely designs, characteristic of those adopted for the second issue.
Estimate HK$ 8,000 - 10,000
Provenance: William L. Kullman, Interasia (Hong Kong), 28.2.2011, lot 2817.
Lot #4242 - chinese local posts swatow / tunkuan / wuhu / hainan samah land post
Chinese Local Posts (Wuhu), Bogus surcharges : 1896(c.) a mint or unused selection, including ½c. on ½c. and 15c. on 15c., two examples of each with surcharges inverted and surcharges double respectively, and 20c. on 20c. with surcharge inverted, mainly fine unused (14).
Estimate HK$ 2,500 - 3,000
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