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Auction: 21042 - The Opium Wars Collection
Lot: 190

The Later Opium Trade
1854 (3 May) entire letter from Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong to an opium trader in Bombay "p. 'Pottinger'", rated "2/-" with a fair to good strike of the crowned "paid/at/hong kong" in red, the flap with indistinct Hong Kong despatch c.d.s. and Bombay arrival (2.6). The letter includes, "... 10 chests of Malwa Opium ... everything in our power shall be done to bring about a favorable result..."


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