
KOREA: 1900/01, Ewha 50ch., a left marginal copy with 15ch. horizontal pair tied ‘Chemulpo .. Nov 02’ to registered higher weight wrapper to Copenhagen/Denmark. On reverse transits Shanghai French office ‘25 Nov 02’, French mail steamer octagonal ‘Marseilles a YOKOHAMA L.N. No. 8 29 Nov 02’ and ‘Copenhagen 1.1.03’ arrival. Also bears a German TPO R-label ‘From foreign via railway mail p.o. 10 Verviers-Cologne’. Remarkable commercial usage of the 50ch. plum blossom. Unreported item, from old Danish family correspondence, wrapper with some faults.