Lot# 7519

1881 (Dec 1) Hong Kong QV 1c green postal card, sent from Shanghae to Peking, indicia cancelled by very clear Shanghae cds. (Type B1), with messages on reverse. Earliest Recorded Use of Shanghae cds. on postal cards (Earlier than Webb's earliest record - 3 Jun 1882). (Note: Hong Kong Post Office and other British Post Offices of Treaty Ports in China firstly used cds. on postal cards instead of killer chops in around 1881/1882 and then used on covers in around 1885).