cover -- 1½c. on 1c. brown card sent from Wenchow and addressed to Paris "via Japan & U.S.A.", uprated with 1c. and 2c. cancelled by fine strikes of Shanghai c.d.s. dated 1918 (24 May), a very early date, some five months earlier than the first recorded use by Perrin. Very fine. Lionel Prescott Collection. Photo