cover 1882 cover (opened out for display and ironed creasing also affecting stamps) to London (8.5 arrival) bearing on reverse Large Dragon 1878 thin paper 1ca. and 5ca. (torn through) and 1882 wide margin 3ca. from the foot of the sheet all overlapping and cancelled by Tientsin seal, showing "CUSTOMS/TIENTSIN" (17.3) and "CUSTOMS/SHANGHAI" (25.3) c.d.s. adjacent and bearing on front France 25c. bistre cancelled "5104" and showing "SHANG-HAI/CHINE" c.d.s. (28.3) adjacent. A pleasing 9 candareens rate composed of all three values of the Large Dragons. Photo in colour