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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 134

The Second Opium War
Whampoa Postal Agency
1860 (3 July) entire letter to U.S.A. "Via Marseilles" rated "24" and with handstruck "45" in black ink, the reverse with Hong Kong (25.7), London (13.9) and Boston Am Pkt. (27.9) c.d.s. The letter is docketed "from Hong Kong towards Whampoa" with embossed device of Kent Hills Packet Post. The letter from Alex Sherman to his sister in New Bedford, Massachusetts was finished some two weeks later. There is some light peripheral soiling but free from filing folds

The Packet Agency at Whampoa was reopened on 9th June 1858 but was eventually closed again on 1st August 1863 due to the expense of maintaining this Agency


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