【Spring 2025 Sales Special Features: Empress Dowager】
1896 L.Tallieu & Co, Peking (8 Aug) to Germany, f.w. Small Dragon 5ca + Empress Dowager 4ca, tied by Peking Chinese seal, matching with I.G. of Customs Peking cds on reverse. Transit Customs Shanghai (14 Aug). In combination with French 25c, tied by Shanghai French PO (15 Aug). Transit Strassburg (23 Sep). Showing redirection cachet. Arrived Mittenwald (26 Sep). Folded at center. With Peter Holcome signature. L.Tallieu & Co. is an Canadian shipping and railway company which provided linked routes betweenn Vancouver and Hong Kong, Japan and China. It also owned department stores in Peking and Tientsin
1962 (6-7 Feb) Newbury.
1988 (Sep) Corinphila.
2019 (Jan) Spink London, The Lam Man Yin Collection, lot 594. Realized HKD$190,000. Illustration in “Covers and Cards of Empress Dowager Jubilee and Its Surcharged Issues” Vol . 1, p. 344, by Tony Kwan To Wah.
【春拍拍品介紹 ：慈壽】
1896.8.8 北京L. Tallieu & Co寄德國，貼小龍5銀銀 + 慈壽4分銀，銷北京漢文戳記，背面另鈐北京海關日戳。8.14經上海海關。加貼法國票25生丁，銷上海法局8.15日戳。9.23經斯特拉斯堡。另見德文改寄指示戳。9.26抵Mittenwald。中央有折。帶有Peter Holcombe簽署。L. Tallieu & Co為加拿大船務及鐵路公司，路線往來加拿大及中港日。於北京及天津亦有經營百貨公司。
1962.2.6-7 Newbury。
1988.8 Corinphola。
2019.1 倫敦斯賓克《The Lam Man Yin Collection of Small Dragons, Dowagers and 1897 Surcharges》拍品號594。成交價19萬港元。關道華著《慈禧壽辰票暨其加蓋票信封圖鑑 上》第344頁原件。