Lot# 7080

20 Oct 1897, a French 10-cent overpinted "CHINA" stationery card sent from Port Arthur (威海衞), which is part of Weihaiwei, to Denmark in Northern Europe, bearing a black circular Tientsin dollar chop and a blue circular Shanghai dollar chop. The stationery card postage mark location is cancelled, in retrospect, by Shanghai French P.O. when arrived there for sending abroad, plus a Danish arrival mark. In 1897, Port Arthur (威海衞) was yet to have postal office, so the card was firstly sent to Tientsin where the mail has taken sea route to go South to Shanghai before the ice blocking conditions set in winter.