Very interesting set of 27 postcards from China (or to desti - Lot 45

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Very interesting set of 27 postcards from China (or to desti - Lot 45
Very interesting set of 27 postcards from China (or to destination) and Hong Kong including two letters, one bearing a 2c Victoria stamp, framed IPO cancel and left with Chinese character dated November 28, 1901. On the reverse is a n°48 China "2c Dragon" cancel "Foochow Arsenal", mixed use Imperial China/British Colonies Hong Kong for Cherbourg. The 2nd is a $5 postmark (alone) dated November 10, 1941, envelope preprinted "Air mail" on the left, handwritten note "via P.a.a transatlantique to USA" for Lyon censor stamp. The postcards are addressed to Mr. Jules Hemmel (French postal director in Han-Kéon, now Hankou), with various early 20th-century imperial Chinese stamps and postmarks. Those addressed from France or abroad (Japan, Russia, USA) are also interesting for their visuals, and one bears the words "Via Paris Moscou et Transsibérien". Finally, we enclose an untraveled "postal stationary with 1c Dragon" and several "Chinese Imperial Government 1903 5% Loan and Chinese Republic 1913 5% Gold Loan for the Lung Tsing-U-Hai Railway.
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