By: Interasia Auctions Limited
lot # 4804 - Hong Kong treaty ports
Canton, 1840 (22 June) "triplicate" entire letter from Wetmore & Co. Canton to London (8.2.41) "(per) Mary Elizabeth" concerning a shipment of tea that had been sent aboard a Spanish vessel to Capsingmoon for transshipment there direct to England "should conveyances offer, otherwise" via Manila or Singapore, showing very fine "Ship Letter/Crown/Liverpool" c.d.s. (7.2) on reverse, rated "8", small mended tear at top (through backflap; not affecting markings), fine and scarce letter from Canton during the early part of the First Opium War from an American merchant sent through the British blockade. Ex Stollnitz, Lee Scamp. Illustrated in Lee Scamp, Postal Rate History of China and Hong Kong, p. 49.
Estimate HK$ 3,500 - 4,000
Estimate: HK$ 3,500 - 4,000
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