Lot# 9165

The 2023 Summer Auction - Sale 340   24th to 28th June 2023, Hong Kong

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Lot# 9165
Starting Price: 2,000 HK$
Hammer Price: 38,000 HK$
1842 (Sep 18) Canton to US entire letter sheet,

bearing framed "PACKET LETER" cachet, along with oval Fletcher Alexander & Co. forwarding agent seal, London (Dec 10) transit, New York (Feb 20) arrival. "PACKET LETER" cachet is very rare on mails from Far East. The content is mostly about the details of Treaty of Nanking. According to Lee C. Scamp, this letter was carried by East Indian Company Ship Auckland at Hong Kong with Major-General George Alexander Malcolm with the peace treaty to England.

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