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Auction: CSS109 - The ‘Connaught’ Collection of Hong Kong, Part 2
Lot: 6785

Hong Kong Treaty Ports
Canton
Pre-adhesive Period
1783 (31 Dec.) entire letter to London and carried privately, written by a British Naval office just prior to his departure home, in the letter he includes the details of a friend's death, "... I yesterday attended his funeral from Canton to Whampoa the place where the ships lay and where the Chinese oblige us to bury our Deceased ..."; fine, some ink doodles in the margins. A good early letter. Not illustrated

Estimate
HK$5,000 to HK$8,000

Starting price
HK$3500