Corinphila Auction 284-290 Day 4

Usage of Imperial adhesives in China 1866: 10 k. brown & blue on horizontally laid paper, cancelled by crisp part strike of boxed script PEKIN handstamp (Tchilinghirian & Stephens fig. 464). The first postmark used in the Russian P.O. in Peking, a rarity, as only few strikes are known on stamps and pieces, and the only complete cover is the famous one ex Fabergé and Dr. Casey (xerox added to lot).