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1894 Empress Dowager 1st print, 9Cds. Green, right marginal block of 4, mint, full original gum, with few small paper remnants on back, still very fresh and very fne. (Chan 28). Photo

HK$ 4,500 - 5,000 355

1894 Empress Dowager 1st print, 9Cds. green, vertical pair, imperforate between, fne used with seal cancels. (Chan 28b). Photo

HK$ 45,000 - 50,000 356

1894 Empress Dowager 1st print, 9Cds. green, left gutter marginal block of 4, with lower left stamp inverted forming tete-beche (inverted cliche no. 2), mint, full original gum, very light traces of hinged, very fresh & very fne. (Chan 28, 28var.). Photo

HK$ 10,000 - 12,000 357

1894 Dowager 1st print,12Cds in block of 4, very fresh surface and light toning on back, mint, Chan's 30. Photo

HK$ 15,000 - 18,000 358

1894 Empress Dowager 1st printing, 24Cds. carmine, unused, no gum, thinned on back. (Chan 30). Photo

HK$ 1,500 - 2,000 359

1894 Empress Dowager 1st printing, 24Cds. carmine, horizontal pair, unused, no gum, fne. (Chan 30). Photo

HK$3,000 - 3,500 360

1894 Empress Dowager 1st printing, 24Cds. carmine, horizontal pair, imperforate between, cut straight all round, cancelled with two strikes of Peking seal cancel in blue, fne. (Chan 30a). Photo

HK$ 50,000 - 55,000

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1894 Empress Dowager 1st printing, 1Cd. Vermillion, colour proof, printed on very thin laid paper (cigarette paper), imperforate block of four with left and bottom margins, very fne and very fresh. Photo

HK$ 12,000 - 13,000

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1894 Empress Dowager 1st printing, 6Cds. brown, colour proof, printed on very thin laid paper (cigarette paper), imperforate block of four, very fne and very fresh. Photo

HK$ 12,000 - 13,000 363

1897 Empress Dowager 2nd printing colour proof, imperforated, unwatermarked, 2Cds. yellow green, white paper, no gum, hinged with remnant, with wide margins, very fresh & fne. (Chan 23S proof). Photo

HK$ 2,500 - 3,000 364

1897 Empress Dowager 2nd printing colour proof, imperforated, unwatermarked, 3Cds. chrome yellow, white paper, no gum, very fresh & very fne. (Chan 24S proof). Photo

HK$ 2,500 - 3,000 365

1897 Empress Dowager 2nd printing colour proof, imperforated, unwatermarked, 5Cds. yellow, white paper, no gum, hinged, very fresh & fne. (Chan 26S proof). Photo

HK$ 2,500 - 3,000 366

1897 Empress Dowager Second print, 2c yellow green, block of 4 with top margin, mint, full original gum, very lightly hinged, very fresh and fne, each stamp signed by Herbert Bloch in pencil, very scarce in multiple. (Chan 23S). Photo

HK$ 30,000 - 35,000