1897 New Currency Surcharges Large Figures Surcharge, Covers 10c. international Rate plus 10c. Registration 1897 (9 Sept.) long envelope registered to Austria bearing wide setting 30c. on 24ca. variety wide space with pair of small figures 10c. on 9ca. (with top margin) cancelled or tied by Tientsin pa-kua with a fine strike of the Tientsin Dollar dater and large "R" in red at right; with France "Chine" 25c. and 1f. tied by "shang-hai/chine" c.d.s. with French registered handstamp alongside, the reverse with Krakau arrival c.d.s. (23.10). Paying four time weight and registration. Some creasing and soiling and a fragment missing from the reverse, nevertheless an attractive and important franking. Photo provenance: Sir David Roseway, January 1973 literature: The Revenue Surcharges China 1897, vol, II (illustrated page 867) Covers and Cards of Empress Dowager Jubilee and its Surcharge issues, Tony Kwan, 2011 (illustrated page 943)
1897 New Currency Surcharges Large Figures Surcharge, Covers 10c. international Rate plus 10c. Registration 1897 (9 Sept.) long envelope registered to Austria bearing wide setting 30c. on 24ca. variety wide space with pair of small figures 10c. on 9ca. (with top margin) cancelled or tied by Tientsin pa-kua with a fine strike of the Tientsin Dollar dater and large "R" in red at right; with France "Chine" 25c. and 1f. tied by "shang-hai/chine" c.d.s. with French registered handstamp alongside, the reverse with Krakau arrival c.d.s. (23.10). Paying four time weight and registration. Some creasing and soiling and a fragment missing from the reverse, nevertheless an attractive and important franking. Photo provenance: Sir David Roseway, January 1973 literature: The Revenue Surcharges China 1897, vol, II (illustrated page 867) Covers and Cards of Empress Dowager Jubilee and its Surcharge issues, Tony Kwan, 2011 (illustrated page 943)
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