Last modified: 1997-09-03 by filip van laenen
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Weihaiwei was a British lease territory in Northeast China. It was a rather obscure, and therefore interesting territory. The colonial badge of Weihaiwei shows a duck, presumably a specific species indigenous to that area.
John Fetzer, 1996-FEB-16
This badge is also mentioned in those HMSO books I have right now, although there's a footnote saying that the badge is "obsolete since 30th September, 1930." There are two birds, one of which looks like a duck but another which looks different -- it's white with blue throat, red beak, green top, and some other brown markings.
Dipesh Navsaria, 1996-FEB-16