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Auction: 20019 - The Shambhala collection of Tibet
Lot: 502

Tibet
The Imperial Courier Post
The Nepali Resident in Lhasa
1876 cover from the Resident in Lhasa to the Prime Minister of Nepal bearing a fine strike of his seal across the flap on the reverse. A fine cover. Photo

Following the third Nepal - Tibet War, provisions of the 1856 treaty gave Nepal the right to have political representation in Tibet. A Nepali Resident was stationed in Lhasa, called the Gurkha Office, to settle disputes involving Nepali citizens. In return Nepal withdrew from the occupied areas of Kuti, Kirong and Jhunga


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