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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 183

The Second Opium War
The Final Northern Campaign
French Postal Bureau
Canton (Bureau C): 1860 (30 Nov.) envelope to Devant les Ponts bearing imperf. Napoleon 20c. (good to very large margins) tied by a neat strike of "CECC" in lozenge with a fine strike of "corps exp. chine/bau c" despatch c.d.s. alongside and a light strike of boxed "PD" in red; the flap is signed by the commanding officer and with two French transit c.d.s. (27.1). Mail from this bureau in Canton is rare, this being a very early example

provenance:
Berkinshaw-Smith, April 2006


Bureau C was open in Canton between October 1860 and early 1862


1860年11月30日廣州法軍駐地寄法國Devant-les Ponts 封, 貼法國破倫無齒20c. 票, 銷 "CECC" 菱型戳, 及 "Corps Exp. Chine/ Bau C" 調發日戳, 旁蓋紅色框型 "PD"戳. 封舌上有指揮官簽署, 及有兩枚1月27日法國中轉戳. 這是一函相當早期寄自廣州法軍駐地的罕見封. 脚註: 法軍駐廣州C局於 1860 年 10 月至 1862 年初在廣州運作.

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HK$35,000

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