
1897 incoming uprated Japan postal stationery card with printed message offering ‘List of Missionaries in Japan and Korea, and Statistics of Missions in Japan for 1897’ to Presbyterian mission at Shanghai, redirected to Soochow, bearing red-brown Japanese despatch, Japanese Offices in Shanghai entry cds, transfered to Chinese Office with Shanghai Local Post index D cds and Dollar Chop of same MR 2 date and a fair strike in blue of scarce Soochow Dollar Chop of 4 MR; two diagonal creases and other wrinkling.