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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 111

Growth of Foreign Military
France
'La Constantine': 1854 (23 Nov.) envelope addressed to an officer on "de marine sur la corvette français la Constantine" at Macao "chine", and sent "via marseille" bearing imperforate Napoleon 20c. (5), each is folded over the edge of the cover (so the address could be read) and tied by grids of square dots with Paris despatch c.d.s. and with "1/-" rate mark in ink, the reverse with a very faint strike of Hong Kong type 7 c.d.s. (29.1). An unusual cover

After the First Opium War, the French Minister in China resided in Macao but still had no territorial possessions or foreign concessions in the Far East. 'La Constantine' was a 30 gun boat commanded by Captain Tardy de Montravel, part of the Division of Reunion and Indochina


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