Lot# 5270
The 2025 December Auction - Sale 346 (December 13 - December 16, 2025) December 13 - December 16 2025, Hong Kong
Lot# 5270
Starting Price: 10,000 HK$
Unsold
Cover mailed during the Ching postal rate reduction period - 1904 (Jan 5) red band cover from Peking registered to Nantungchow,
f.w. six CIP 1c on reverse paying the 6c rate, tied by Peking oval datestamps, with rectangular framed Peking Registered handstamp on front showing registration no. “120”. Transited via Shanghai (Jan 14) and arrived at Nantungchow on Jan 16 with oval arrival datestamp on reverse. The letter enclosed fourteen wooden boxes, representing an early example of a registered parcel cover in Chinese postal history.