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Auction: 22014 - Stamps and Covers of Asia
Lot: 233

Hong Kong
1842 (13 Sept.) entire letter from Calcutta to Batavia, carried privately on an opium clipper, bears a clean but light strike of the Hong Kong Royal Arms postmark in red and rate mark in ink. Addressed to The Factory of the Netherlands Trading Society the letter deals with various produce including the safe arrival of 28 chests of opium forwarded from Singapore had arrived safely. Some notation on the cover which is fine and free from the usual filing creases. Photo

provenance:
Burghard, January 1961

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Sold for
£6,000

Starting price
£2200