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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pickin and Grinin, post: 25277593, member: 73995&quot;]I was able to find a little information surrounding the badge.</p><p>Up until 1842 Shanghai was just a small fishing village, It was the opium war of 1840-42 that turned Shanghai into the insurance capitol of the east.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first foreign insurers in China Unlike in other parts of the world, the ports of southern China, not London, were the spawning ground for the insurance industry in the Asia-Pacific region. In the early 1800s the British East India Company held a monopoly on Chinese trade, and European merchants involved in trade between India and China struggled to insure their ships and goods in London and were forced to pay extremely high premiums.</p><p><br /></p><p>Until the First Opium War (1840–1842), Shanghai had been just a small fishing village. But the wars with Britain forced China to open Shanghai to foreign trade as a treaty port and created the country’s gateway to the West. Foreigners soon flocked to Shanghai, building roads, sewage systems and houses, and trade flourished. By 1871, Shanghai was connected by cable to London, reflecting its importance and the high level of Western engagement at that time. </p><p>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.swissre.com/dam/jcr:eb1aba5f-05ca-4bd4-bfe6-d42a6ed6b8c5/150Y_Markt_Broschuere_China_Inhalt.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.swissre.com/dam/jcr:eb1aba5f-05ca-4bd4-bfe6-d42a6ed6b8c5/150Y_Markt_Broschuere_China_Inhalt.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.swissre.com/dam/jcr:eb1aba5f-05ca-4bd4-bfe6-d42a6ed6b8c5/150Y_Markt_Broschuere_China_Inhalt.pdf</a></p><p>I found another certificate that says that Shanghai life insurance company was merged into Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada in 1924. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can date this badge somewhere between 1871 and 1924. More research will be needed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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