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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 173

The Second Opium War
The Final Northern Campaign
Occupation of Peking
French Troops - General Collineau: 1861 (10 Jan.) envelope addressed to "E. Collineau, general de Division, au corps expeditionnaire de Chine, a Pekin" bearing imperf Napoleon 20c. (2) (good to large margins) tied by petit chiffres "1896" with Marseilles despatch and boxed "PD" struck on black, no other postal markings; there is a small spike hole, fresh and fine. Very early French mail addressed to Peking

provenance:
Berkinshaw-Smith, April 2006


General Collineau died of smallpox in Tientsin in 1861


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