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lot # 119 - übersee Asien - China
overseas\asia\china
1897, red revenue small 2 cents (oxydized) tied brown "CUSTOMS CANTON MAR 23 97" to inland cover to Shanghai w. customs dater arrival of APR 2 on reverse. This the second earliest recorded use of the Canton dater on a Red Revenue cover (the earliest being 20 March). Chan 84.References: DG of Posts, The Revenue Surcharges China 1897. Vol. I (Taipei, 1984), p. 85.;Benjamin Y.K. Hwa, The Illustrated ... of Revenue Surcharges, Vol. I, p. 64; Interasia April 2012 #409.
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