Lot 1772

1870.12.26 Packet front, from Macao to the Chief Postmaster in Lisbon, sent “Via GIBRALTAR” and rated “56sh” in red ink, f.w. Hong Kong QV 96c x 14, tied by B62 obliterator. Alongside bearing Crowned “PAGO EM MACAO” type 2-7-1 postmark, Macao index B type 3-3-2 cds and Gibraltar transit c.d.s. Only 3 covers (all fronts) with such large multiple franking are known. It is also the earliest recorded example of the Crowned “PAGO EM MACAO” type 3-3-2 postmark. Cover No. 871 in “A Survey and Recorded of Pre-Adhesive Period Postal History of Macau 1616-1891” by Choi Cheong Too. Illustration plate 61 in “The Philatelic Postal History of Hong Kong and the Treaty Ports of China and Japan” by F W Webb. 1980 (Dec) Sotheby: “The Ryohei Ishikawa Collection -Postage Stamps and Postal History of Hong Kong and Treaty Ports”, lot no. 558. Illustration fig 158, p. 389 in “Historia e Desenvolvemento dos Correios e das Telecomunicacoes de Macau” Vol. 1 by Luis Virgilio de Brito Frazao. Ex- F Mayer.

1870.12.26總包封皮封面，自澳門經香港寄里斯本郵政總長，郵資56先令，貼香港維多利亞女皇像96仙票14枚，銷B62殺手戳。下方蓋有皇冠“PAGO EM MACAO”2-7-1型澳門郵資已付戳、澳門B字3-3-2型日戳及直布羅陀中轉戳。類似的澳門總包封皮僅見三件（均只有封面），此同為“PAGO EM MACAO”2-7-1型戳記之最早例子。 蔡昌道《1616至1891年澳門郵票發行前郵政史調查與紀錄》中第871件封。Webb著《The Philatelic Postal History of Hong Kong and the Treaty Ports of China and Japan》Plate 61原件。 1980年12月蘇富比“石川良佐集藏 - 香港及通商口岸郵票及郵政史”，拍品號558。 范笙祿著《澳門郵政與電訊的歷史和發展》第一卷第389頁第158號圖例原件。 F. Mayer舊藏。