Title
Remittance envelope with British Military Administration Stamp
Year/Period
1945
Region
Swatow, China
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 15.2 x 7.7 cm
Accession No.
2024-00669
Collection of
Credit Line
Collection of Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall
This is an empty Chinese remittance envelope dated to around 1945 to 1946. More commonly known as qiaopi (侨批), qiaopi was a private mail delivery system established by early Chinese immigrants in the early 19th century to deliver money and family letters to their home villages in China. This particular envelope has been stamped with the chop of the British Military Administration (BMA). British Military Administration was a temporary period when the British military occupied Singapore between 1945 and 1946 following the end of the Japanese Occupation.
