Price

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Title Map of the Colony of Hong Kong.

Publisher Waterlow & Sons Limited

Publication place London

Publication date c 1900

Colour lithographed map, small closed tear to left margin, not affecting image.

Notes

A map of the former British colony of Hong Kong. There are two keys at the lower margin. The smaller area shaded fully in red on the map shows territory ceded to Britain by the Chinese government under the Convention of Peking in 1860, after the end of the Second Opium War.

This gave Britain the area south of Boundary Street on the Kowloon Peninsula rent-free, on a perpetual lease. In 1898, a further Convention was agreed that gave Britain a further stretch of land north of Boundary Street to the Sham Chun River, with over 200 nearby islands. This area, outlined with a red dashed line, was known as the New Territories. The lease on the New Territories expired at midnight on 30 June 1997.

Roads are marked with black lines, and telegraphs with lines of alternate dots and dashes. Towns and cities are marked with white circles, and police stations with red circles. Notable mountains are marked with triangles and their height in feet.

The map was printed by Waterlow and Sons, a leading British printer specialising in currency and stamps, who were susbsequently involved in the Portuguese Bank Note Crisis in 1925, when they were tricked into printing forged Portuguese bank notes by the fraudster Artur Alves Reis.

Dimensions

328 by 388mm. (13 by 15.25 inches)

Price

£650.00



Stock number

14616
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