The 2024 Winter Auction - Sale 344 - Day 3

1894 Dowager Empress, Imperforate Varieties,24cd. rose red variety imperforate between vertical pair, each neatly cancelled by Tientsin seal type X in blue, each struck sideways. Exceptionally fresh and fine, bright color and a magnificent example of this popular, high value variety.This variety occurred on three sheets, but we have records of only 5 used pairs and 14 unused pairs.  This is one of the 5 pairs used surviving. It is though that this pair came from pane 3 and joins a similarly cancelled pair which has the right interpanneau margin. Ex Lam Man Yim (Spink Jan 2019 lot 671, hammer price sold at HK$180,000)

1894年慈壽票，中縫漏齒變體，24cd. 玫瑰紅色變體，垂直成對中縫漏齒，每一枚均由天津郵戳 X 字形蓋印，且蓋印方向橫向。狀況極佳，色澤鮮亮，且為這一流行高值品種的珍貴實例。 此變體出現在三張版面上，但目前僅記錄到5對已使用的和14對未使用的。這是五對已使用的其中之一。據推測，這一對來自第三面板，並與一對相似的已蓋印對拼接，後者有右邊的面版邊緣。 出自Lam Man Yim收藏（Spink 2019年1月拍賣第671號，成交價為港幣180,000）