Lot
1732 
Asiatic Shore Facilities Collection, 1905-48, of 97 covers and cards arranged in binder, with 17 pre-1921 items, 44 with foreign stamps and 8 on official penalty covers, additionally with origin press photo and much information surrounding these covers; starting with China Postal Agencies with seventeen items (mostly post cards) showing various U.S. Post Office in Shanghai postmarks including the scarce receiving postmarks, Purchasing Offices showing various 1930-40's Navy postmarks including five penalty covers, also three "U.S. Navy Godown, Hankow, China, Official Business" corner card covers with two penalty covers, Marines in China with a number of different "Marine Det." postmarks including embassy, marine brigades, provisional postmarks, Tientsin, and Tsingtao, etc.; a nice assembly of facility related postal history, Very Fine. Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
Realized: $1,000