China - Postcard (1) - 1900-1900





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China, Shanghai, a 1900 postcard depicting the Iltis monument in Shanghai.
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Iltis - Monument - Shanghai - the card was stamped on 21.6.1900 in Shanghai - postage stamp of the German Empire with the imprint CHINA ! - with arrival stamp Apenrade 30.7.00 !
The card has a crease at the bottom right - see scans - otherwise the condition is really good !
On the history of the Iltis monument :
on 21.11.1898 the monument in Shanghai on the Bund (near Public Garden and the German Club Concordia) was unveiled in the presence of Prince Heinrich of Prussia.
In 1918 it was removed from the street, but in 1929 a reconstruction took place in the garden of the German School Shanghai.
In times of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, it was finally destroyed
Iltis - Monument - Shanghai - the card was stamped on 21.6.1900 in Shanghai - postage stamp of the German Empire with the imprint CHINA ! - with arrival stamp Apenrade 30.7.00 !
The card has a crease at the bottom right - see scans - otherwise the condition is really good !
On the history of the Iltis monument :
on 21.11.1898 the monument in Shanghai on the Bund (near Public Garden and the German Club Concordia) was unveiled in the presence of Prince Heinrich of Prussia.
In 1918 it was removed from the street, but in 1929 a reconstruction took place in the garden of the German School Shanghai.
In times of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, it was finally destroyed

