Interlaced Cypher "B M" for a member of the Colonel Sidney Derby Maize

Provenance : Colonel Sidney Darby Maize
To Lesbia F. Spillman To Stephen Derby Alexander

In 1908, the last Qing emperor, Puyi (1906-67) ascended China’s throne; a Scottish tutor, Reginald Johnston, was hired for him, from whom he learned a taste for the West.
(Forced to abdicate in 1912.)
Other events in 1909 - Shanghai Opium Commission - US President Taft succeeds Roosevelt -- Peary expedition to North Pole