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
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- Lt. Col. L.T. Rose Hutchinson, C. Derek Houston, George E Burghard, F. Mayer. With exhibit page. 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”3-3-2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。 Lt. Col. L.T. Rose Hutchinson、C. Derek Houston、George E Burghard、F. Mayer舊藏。附展頁。
