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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 186

The Second Opium War
After The War
The Taiping Rebellion
1861 (19 Nov.) stampless commercial entire from Foochow to Tasmania "p Mail" rated at "1/-" in red crayon with Hong Kong Paid and Hong Kong c.d.s. (30.11) and the diamond Tasmania "ship letter - inward" datestamp (4.1); horizontal filing fold, good to fine. The contents give details of tea shipments concluding with, "... Bekefd Congou are said to be in diminished supply owing to continued Rebel disturbances in some of the producing districts"

provenance:
Eddie Lawrence, September 2014


1861年11月19日由福州寄澳洲塔斯曼尼亞無票信函, 信封上有 "P Mail" 字樣, 並手寫紅字"1/-", 蓋 "Hong Kong Paid" 戳及11月30日香港中轉戳, 而1月4日鑽石型塔斯曼尼亞 "Ship Letter-Inwards Free" 到達日戳 蓋於香港日戳之上. 信內容提供了茶葉運輸的詳細信息, 結尾是: “.…據說由於叛軍在一些產區的持續騷亂, 因此Bekefd Kongou 的供應減少了”. 品相中上.

Sold for
HK$13,000

Starting price
HK$4000