Lot 40217 – Ship Mail. 1903 (June 8) Postcard from Gibraltar to Shanghai, with a very rare “REICHSPOsTDAMPFER/PRINZ HEINRICH.” provisional postmark

Ship Mail. 1903 (June 8) Postcard to Shanghai struck on reverse with Gibraltar cds (2 May), franked by Germania 10pf tied by framed “REICHSPOSTDAMPFER/PRINZ HEINRICH.” hs in violet, showing Shanghai Local Post and Shanghai German P.O. cds’s (8 June) alongside, a very rare provisional postmark only used for a short period after the loss of the “Deutsche Seepost Ost-Asiatische Hauptlinie” cds.