Lot# 7172

black-and-white memorial portrait titled in Esperanto “Martiro de Anarĥiismo” (“Martyr of Anarchism”) and “La Portreto de S-ro Sifo,” depicting Liu Shifu (劉師復, also known as Shifu), a leading early Chinese anarchist and reform thinker. Postcard with Esperanto text on reverse, bearing violet cachet and addressed to Paris, France. Rare contemporary issue honoring one of China’s earliest anarchist martyrs.