Lot# 7033

The 2025 December Auction - Sale 346 (December 13 - December 16, 2025)   December 13 - December 16 2025, Hong Kong

Lot# 7033
Starting Price: 600 HK$
Hammer Price: 600 HK$
c.1900s portrait postcards of Qing officials,

c.1900s pair of Qing-official portrait postcards:
(1) Published by Meishu She, titled “Commander-in-Chief Zhang (chairman) and Commissioner Chen (seated)” (正會長張制軍與坐辨陳觀察), in traditional attire.
(2) German Kiautschou postcard depicting Duke K’ung Ling-yi (孔令貽)—a direct descendant of Confucius—franked with a Kiautschou 1 Cent stamp tied by Tsingtau postmark and addressed to Haiphong, Tonkin, dated 1909. Scarce examples of late-Qing portraiture and foreign postal usage from China.