Auction 333-341 Europe & Overseas - Day 6

Russia in China 1907: KITAI 7 r. black & orange-yellow, vertical laid paper (Gi 22), block of fifteen and strip of three and a single (affixed to the reverse, one overlapping at base), used on large part fragment of a Dispatch document with cachet for 'International Russian Contractors Company Shanghai' in violet, dated 20 October 1916, tied by a Shanghai double-ringed circle in black. Soiled and some imperfections, although remarkably preserved piece. Rare. Cert. Bakker (2013).