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China Postal Stationery Card Sent From ? To Tsingtau/Kiautschou (1904)

 
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Posted 08/20/2023   4:12 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add filipo to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I will appreciate if anyone could help me to find out from which China town this card has been sent?

Thanks!




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Posted 08/20/2023   5:28 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add classic_paper to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Can you repost the pictures 1) in focus, 2) in better light, and 3) without the reflection/glare?
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Posted 08/20/2023   6:33 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add filipo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi! Thank you for your reply.

I just thought that photos will be sufficient, but, obviously they are not...

so, hope that these scans are fine enough!

Thanks again!



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Posted 08/20/2023   9:57 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Just for fun to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The cancel on top of the postage reads:
Yi Prefecture (Shandong),
The other one (over where the sender's address) reads:
Jiaozhou City
I am not sure which one belongs to the sender and which one to the receiver.
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Posted 08/21/2023   12:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add filipo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you, JFF! On the back side of this card is 2x handwritten name of the place, where is this card has been actually written by the sender, but all on the old German script... hard to decipher. Particularly, I am unable to decipher first couple (2 or 3) letters from the name od the town, and the rest is ***chowfou... the very first letter is most probably F, or possibly H, so, the name of the town should be F**chowfou or, less probably, H**chowfou. Any clue?
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Edited by filipo - 08/21/2023 12:19 pm
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Posted 08/21/2023   12:31 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add PostmasterGS to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The place name as written appears to be Ttschowfou, which could be a short way of writing Tschingtschoufu, which had a significant German presence beginning in 1903.
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Posted 08/21/2023   1:07 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add filipo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Excellent; thank you very much, PostmasterGS!

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