Please read these notes along with those for 39600049B, C, and D.  This item (scan 509A shows the cover) is in a box measuring 11-5/8″ x 12″ x 1-1/4″.  Open the lid of the box, and you see what we’ve photographed for 509B.  Everything here commemorates “Classical Chinese Traditional Villages.”  Inside the left cover page of this folio are what you see in 509C.  The ingot is real silver, a replica of the stamp you see on the Maximum Card.  The Maximum Card (issued in May, 2013) is made of textured wood:  the brown building is laminated, and projects out from the card.

Continuing, open the large book (509B) to find nine heavy leaves (pages) containing mint stamp sheets and stamp sheetlets, along with art and text about the old cities.  Along with the book, China Post has kindly provided a credit-card-sized “Certificate of Test” (509D), individually numbered, assaying that metal stamp.  This comes from “Guangdong jewelry testing center,” the “Guangdong jewelry quality supervision station,” and the card gives contact details just in case you don’t believe us!  This, like other China Post efforts, is quite an extraordinary item.   Unused, of course, and in great condition but we are assigning Grade: 2 only due to some bumping on the outer cover.