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Manufacturer: Hongkong
Old Hong Kong: Mocking postcard "
to remember Canton, one of the biggest cities in China where yellow men with pigtails chaffer and bargain a picturesque view, but dangerous for olfactory organs."
Attached is a 2 cents KEV stamp, tied by a Hong Kong 1905 strike. Fine condition.
The postcard was sent to a famous Austrian physician: August Leopold von Reuss (1841 - 1924). He was an Austrian ophthalmologist who was a native of Bilin, Bohemia. He studied at Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague, and at the University of Vienna, where he obtained his degree in 1865 and later became director of the ophthalmology department at the Allgemeine Poliklinik in Vienna.
Reuss made several contributions involving the mathematical aspects of ophthalmic medicine, and performed studies involving ophthalmoscopy, ophthalmometry, curvature of the cornea, and refraction of the eye. He also performed extensive research of color blindness, and developed a pseudo-isochromatic color chart called the Reuss Farbtafeln which was formerly used to test color blindness.
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