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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 120

The Second Opium War
The Blockade of Canton
Incoming Mail
1857 (14 Oct.) entire letter from New York to Augustine Heard & Co. in Canton "via Marseilles & Overland Mail" and "per 'Arabia'", the letter dated 1857 (22 July), with "78" and "24" rate marks, two different London transit c.d.s. (12.8) and the Hong Kong c.d.s. (14.10) on the flap. It is thought that this letter was carried by British gun boat to the new British Postal Agency at Whampoa. There are a few minor wrinkles but free from the usual filing creases. A good cover from this period


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