Lot 10094 – CHEFOO INCOMING: 1898 Cover from Japan to the Russ

CHEFOO INCOMING: 1898 Cover from Japan to the Russian Consulate in Chefoo, for an Officer on a Russian gunboat, franked with 5s Koban tied by Nagasaki cds, with transits of the Japanese P.O. at Shanghai and Chinese P.O. at Shanghai and Chefoo on the reverse, and obverse with Chefoo Russian P.O. 1.10.98 arrival cds (T&S type 2) and oval tax hs “DOPLATIT / CHEFOO” with ms “10k”, a rare item of incoming mail with this tax mark