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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 39

First Opium War
The Kowloon Incident
End of the Blockade
1840 (17 Jan.) entire letter to John Buckley & Sons in Saddleworth, Yorkshire from a member of Holliday, Wise & Co the 'Heroica' in "Tongkoo Bay, off Canton" and carried privately to England "p Tapley" and rated "8", the flap with the step-type "penzance/ship letter" and London transit (4.6).


Much of the letter deals with the tea trade with news of the dwindling trade and increasing conflict following the evacuation of the merchants from Hong Kong Island to a safer anchorage, " ... the British merchants are now divided between this anchorage and Macao, having since their leaving Canton continues to do a moderate business with Canton through American Agents, sending up goods per foreign flags ... At this moment, however, trans-shipped British goods cannot be sent up without risk of confiscation" A good letter from Tongkoo Bay anchorage

provenance:
Eddie Lawrence, September 2014


1840年1月17日由停泊於銅鼓灣的"Heroica號" 寄往Yorkshire (約克那) John Buckley & Co 信函, 由輪船私人 "Tapley" 携往. 費用為8d, 封舌上有黑色梯型"penzance/ ship letter" 戳記, 及倫敦6月4日中轉戳; 道光十九年十一月二十九日(1840年1月5日) 下詔嚴諭停止一切英商貿易. 林則徐在接詔後下令禁止一切英商船進入, 而在江上的要盡行驅逐離開. 當時英貨船在華約六十艘, 大半滿載商品, 因海港封鎖均泊於銅鼓灣外洋. 亦嚴禁他國商人不許私代英商帶運貨㧅. 此信函講述便是涉及上述事宜.

Sold for
HK$6,500

Starting price
HK$6500