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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 136

The Second Opium War
British Forces in Hong Kong
1858 (7 June) opened-out envelope to Alexander Gibbon, surgeon of the 65th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry in Hong Kong, bearing 1855-57 4d. (2) and 1d. Red tied by Aberdeen duplex and sent "via Marseilles", the reverse with London (9.6) and Hong Kong type 7 arrival (20.7); marked as "Recd 22 July 1858" suggesting that the Regiment was still in Canton. With the original letter from his aunt


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