China 1897 4c on 4ca pale pink 'Dowager' surcharge error, SG81a var Space & Aviation a year and one month

a year and one month ago

lightly cancelled by "64" numeral of Hobart

Captain Mostyn Field of the Royal Navy Survey ship HMS Penguin was surveying the islands of the Western Pacific for the routing of a proposed new telegraphic cable with a secondary objective to deliver the "Funafuti Coral Reef Boring Expedition of the Royal Society" to Funafuti (Vanuatu archipelago) to test Charles Darwin's hypothesis for the formation of coral atolls

A very fine unused large part original gum horizontal strip of three lettered JA-JC

from 6th and 12th columns

China 1897 4c on 4ca pale pink 'Dowager' surcharge error, SG81a var Space & Aviation a year and one monthUnique Qing Chinese issue all China collectors want China 1897 4c on 4ca pale pink 'Dowager', 1mm spaced surcharge on Dowager third printing, error surcharge inverted and showing incorrect type of Chinese '4', SG81a var. Fine mint condition with part original gum. Only one pane of eighty was found with the inverted surcharge, this example with the correct '4' is therefore unique. Chan catalogue No: 77c. An extraordinary item and a major rarity of