By: Cherrystone Auctions
lot # 317 - FRENCH COLONIES French Indochina - VIETNAM
1888 cover from the Campario correspondence, with letter datelined "Dien-bien-phou February 6, 1888", with "Lao-Kai 25 Fevr 88" and corresponding "Corps Exp're Annan-Tonkin" alongside, addressed to France, with "Ba-Hoa", "Than-Quan", "Ha-Noi" and "Corr.D.Arm. Ligne N Paq. Fr. No.5" transits, also 22 Apr 88 arrival pmk on back (Dien Bien Phu became famous in 1954, when the Battle of Dien Bien Phu was fought between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries)
Estimate: $500
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