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| OVERPRINTED BY HAND 'CHINA' 1900 description: 1903, vertical pair of the 30pf on commercially used registered letter to Koenigsberg [Germany], registration label of the field-post station 'No.3/1st army' / note: The sender was a male volunteer nurse with the Red Cross, who worked in the hospital of the military base Yang-tsun [Naval hospital of the Red Cross]. The Red Cross hasn't been discharged from paying postage during Boxer Rebellion. canc.: "K.D. FELDPOSTSTATION No.3 8.3." examined: signed Thier, Grobe, Friedel, Bothe auction: 284th Koehler / Wiesbaden starting price: 35,000 DEM hammer price: 45,000 DEM |
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| OVERPRINTED BY HAND 'CHINA' 1900 description: 1901, horiz. pair 30pf on commercially used reg. letter [Mandarin's cover], written by Erich Salzmann [who was lieutenant with the German Eastasian expeditionary force] to his father residing in Wesel, arrival postmark on reverse / canc.: "TIENTSIN DP*a 25/1 01" condition: superb examined: photographic cert. by Friedmann auction: 281th Koehler / Wiesbaden starting price: 16,000 DEM hammer price: 29,000 DEM |
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