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Card From The British Consular Post Office in Siam
cover 1881 (July) Hong Kong 3c. brown stationery card used from Bangkok to New York via San Francisco, cancelled by good, legible, strike of the oval "BRITISH CONSULATE/BANGKOK" with Arms handstamp in reddish brown, overstruck by "B62" obliterator and showing Hong Kong c.d.s. alongside; some slight toning and with an insignificant internal split. One of only a handful of items known bearing the Consulate handstamp and the only recorded example struck in reddish brown
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cover 1881 (July) Hong Kong 3c. brown stationery card used from Bangkok to New York via San Francisco, cancelled by good, legible, strike of the oval "BRITISH CONSULATE/BANGKOK" with Arms handstamp in reddish brown, overstruck by "B62" obliterator and showing Hong Kong c.d.s. alongside; some slight toning and with an insignificant internal split. One of only a handful of items known bearing the Consulate handstamp and the only recorded example struck in reddish brown
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Note: The above is a new discovery made by a resident of Salt Lake City, U.S.A. at a local stamp bourse