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1898 Watermarked Coiling Dragon, 1/2c to $5 complete set of 12, all with horizontal ‘Specimen’ overprint in sans-serif black letter,
a few values with a few toned spots and no gum.
With Peter Holcombe cert. 1997
. Photo
HK$ 20,000 - 25,000
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1898 Coiling Dragon 1c ochre block of 4, with bilingual handstamped surcharged ‘Five Dollars’, virtually full original gum and
hinged on the top 2 stamps only, very fine and extremely rare. Photo
Sir David Roseway requested information about the surcharge in the China Clipper of Noverber 1955, at that time Sir David
Roseway ventured the thought that this might be a revenue. There does not appear to have been any response to the enquiry.
Provenance: E.N.Lane Collection, Sotheby’s Oct 1997.
Photo
HK$ 8,000 - 10,000
491
1898 Coiling Dragon with watermark, 5c flesh vertical pair imperforate between variety, mint part original gum hinged on top stamp
only. Chan 108b. Photo
HK$ 3,600 - 4,000
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1902 Coiling Dragon no watermark, 1/2c chocolate with imperforate right margin, tied by ‘SHANGHAI/LOCAL POST’ cds, very
fine. Chan 116a var. Photo
HK$ 640 - 800
493
1902 Coiling Dragon no watermark, 1c horizontal pair imperf. between variety, mint and no gum. Chan 117s. Photo
HK$ 2,000 - 2,400
494
1902 Coiling Dragon no watermark, 1c imperforate bottom margin variety, with bilingual ‘SHANGHAI/12.8.03’ CTO, full original
gum and fresh colour. Very fine. Chan 117h. Photo
HK$ 1,600 - 2,000
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1902 coiling Dragon no watermark, 1c deep orange, vertical strip of 5 horizontal imperf.
variety, unmounted and pristine copy, very fine. Chan 117i. Photo
HK$ 2,500 - 3,000
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1902 CIP Coiling Dragon no watermark, 1c ochre, tied by bilingual cds, with the date index
inverted variety, plus an overprinted ‘ROC’ on 1c, tied by tombstone cancel, damaged at the
center. Chan 116, 153. Photo
HK$ 500 - 600
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