Newsstand during 1997 Handover

Newsstand during 1997 Handover

What we definitely can say about this card:  it has character.  Let’s hope we don’t forget everything we should say about it.  Published in Hong Kong, commemorating events during the 1997 handover from Great Britain to China; and mailed from Hong Kong (in 2019) with four stamps and three postmarks, along with a blue Airmail label.  Someone in the post office marked off the address, as if to help someone else find it — an unnecessary move.  But the photo itself is of a newsstand in PR China, not Hong Kong, and we know this because the newspaper and the blue road sign (“alight here”) are in simplified and not traditional Chinese characters.  Of course if you can read Chinese, you’ll know more.  Grade: 2

 

Name: Newsstand during 1997 Handover

From: EAST AND SOUTH ASIA/Hong Kong SAR of China

Code: 20308871

Price: $6.00