RARE KIUNGCHOW BOXED "I.P.O." TIE-PRINT FRONT + PRESTAMP DOU...

Hammer

£340

RARE KIUNGCHOW BOXED "I.P.O." TIE-PRINT FRONT + PRESTAMP DOUBLE-ARC C.D.S. VARIETIES; 1856/7 env./E from Hong Kong to GB "Via Marseilles" charged "1/4" or "1/-" with very fine double-arc "HONG-KONG" backstamps showing double-day and day-before-month varieties; "9AU9/1856" or "23JU/1857"; plus rare 24 June 1902 commercial front (slight faults) to Cincinnati with HK QV 5c Blue pair tied by mainly fine rare Kiungchow boxed "I.P.O" tie-print (one of the rarest tie-prints of all of which few covers are known) and by two mainly fine 2-ring "VICTORIA/HONG KONG" c.d.s.'s having a mainly very fine Chinese bilingual "KIUNGCHOW" c.d.s. in the opposite corner. [All ex Eddie Lawrence; (Cavendish Sept. 2014 lots 653+758; realised £230 in total]. (2 covers + 1 front)