- £375.00
China. (French Territory in Kouang - Tcheou - Wan). 1905. Picture post card of 'Opium smokers, Kouang-Tcheou-Wan' addressed to France bearing Indo-Chinese Post Offices in China SG 4, 5c yellow-green tied by Kouang-Tcheou-Wan-Chine double ring '10th Nov 05'.
Desrousseaux Type 2 (with variety "CHINE") reversed. Lovely item.
The leased Territory of Kouang-Tcheou-Wan in China was leased to France and administered by French Indo-China. The French Occupation was for 99 years from 1898 until 1997 as the British in Hong Kong.
Japan occupied the territory in WW2 and it was returned to France in 1945.
Postal history is scarce with small towns like Potsi, Taiping, Po-Tao and Point-Nivet very sort after. The Tche-Kang 1900 stampless envelope in Dr Ed Grabowski sale made 26,000 GBP
