U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
November 18-19, 2009

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Lot #3586
FRANCE French Offices in China
1871 (29 Jan) free frank cover headed "C - Admiral Ct. la division Navale des Mers de Chine", sent from Shanghai to Tientsin, from the commanding admiral to the Captain of the French Gunboats in the "Peiho" at Tientsin. The Peiho was the harbor on the China Sea which led up to the river to Tientsin and then to Peking, fine and rare early French-China Naval cover, with violet hs of the French Chinese Squadron HQ Naval cachet on back
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