Lot# 7245

pair of early missionary-related portrait postcards — one depicting Dr. Timothy Richard (1845–1919), renowned British Baptist missionary to China, credited for famine relief and educational reform; the other titled “A Friend of the Society — Military Mandarin of Ching Chin”, issued by the London Missionary Society. Both printed in England, the first with biographical notes on reverse. Fine and uncommon examples reflecting early Western missionary engagement and representation of Chinese officials.