Lot# 7030

2 May 1908, a C.I.P. 2nd series stationery double-card reply portion, sent from Szechuan to Italy, uprated with one 1-cent and one 2-cent coiled dragon stamps, cancelled with a hand-writing Chengtu stamp (hand-writing the 3rd day of the 4th month, lunar year WuShen). Additionally, the 1-cent postage on card was cancelled with a Chungking Pakau cancellation, and Chengtu Chinese-English circular date stamp, the Shanghai bilingual circular datestamp, and the Shanghai British P.O. transit c.d.s.  Rare to have a Szechuan Chengtu hand-writing stamp.