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489 1898 Watermarked Coiling Dragon, 1/2c to $5 complete set of 12, all with horizontal ‘Specimen’ overprint in sans-serif black letter, a few values with a few toned spots and no gum. With Peter Holcombe cert. 1997 . Photo HK$ 20,000 - 25,000 490 1898 Coiling Dragon 1c ochre block of 4, with bilingual handstamped surcharged ‘Five Dollars’, virtually full original gum and hinged on the top 2 stamps only, very fine and extremely rare. Photo Sir David Roseway requested information about the surcharge in the China Clipper of Noverber 1955, at that time Sir David Roseway ventured the thought that this might be a revenue. There does not appear to have been any response to the enquiry. Provenance: E.N.Lane Collection, Sotheby’s Oct 1997. Photo HK$ 8,000 - 10,000

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491 1898 Coiling Dragon with watermark, 5c flesh vertical pair imperforate between variety, mint part original gum hinged on top stamp only. Chan 108b. Photo HK$ 3,600 - 4,000 492 1902 Coiling Dragon no watermark, 1/2c chocolate with imperforate right margin, tied by ‘SHANGHAI/LOCAL POST’ cds, very fine. Chan 116a var. Photo HK$ 640 - 800 493 1902 Coiling Dragon no watermark, 1c horizontal pair imperf. between variety, mint and no gum. Chan 117s. Photo HK$ 2,000 - 2,400 494 1902 Coiling Dragon no watermark, 1c imperforate bottom margin variety, with bilingual ‘SHANGHAI/12.8.03’ CTO, full original gum and fresh colour. Very fine. Chan 117h. Photo HK$ 1,600 - 2,000 495 1902 coiling Dragon no watermark, 1c deep orange, vertical strip of 5 horizontal imperf. variety, unmounted and pristine copy, very fine. Chan 117i. Photo HK$ 2,500 - 3,000 496

1902 CIP Coiling Dragon no watermark, 1c ochre, tied by bilingual cds, with the date index inverted variety, plus an overprinted ‘ROC’ on 1c, tied by tombstone cancel, damaged at the center. Chan 116, 153. Photo HK$ 500 - 600

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