Lot 1020
1881 (10 Oct.) 10 pf stationery card from Frankfurt to "Ernst Ruhstrat Esq, Chinese Custom Service, Peking, China", redirected to Shanghai, cancelled by "Frankfurt am Main" c.d.s., showing "Singapore/to Hong Kong/A" c.d.s. (5.11) and bearing China Large Dragon thin paper 3ca brown red applied on arrival in China to pay domestic postage for onward transmission to North China, tied by "Customs/Shanghai" double-ring d.s. (17.11), showing "I.G. of Customs/Peking" double-ring d.s. (28.11) in blue and "Customs/Shanghai" double-ring arrival datestamp (8.12.), the card has central vertical crease and a corner crease, nevertheless Very Fine.
Estimate 40,000 - 50,000
THE ONLY RECORDED GERMANY-LARGE DRAGON COMBINATION FRANKING AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ITEMS ILLUSTRATING THE GERMAN PRESENCE IN CHINA.
Provenance: Professor Benzinger
Reference:
Grobe, Sale No. 154 (October, 1972), lot 4595.
"A Comprehensive Illustration on Covers of Chinese Large Dragons" by James B. Whang (Taipei, 1997), pp. 201-202
Exhibited at Wipa 1981, in Vienna, Austria.
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