CHINA - Incoming Mail from Great Britain. 1879 cover sent from Plymouth, franked with QV 6d (plate#16, SG 147) to China Inland Mission Shanghai. Hong Kong transit on reverse. Front shows manuscript notation "Rece. July 4th / Silver Island / May 7th / 1879" - SILVER ISLAND on the Yangtse river near Chin Kiang, remarkable destination at this (or any other) time. (Photo). Est. 300 - 400 CHF.