Palace Furniture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (set)
Two mint-condition items in one cardboard sleeve. One is an ornate book of commemorative furniture stamp sheets with substantial descriptions of different styles of Chinese chairs. The other book is larger (4-1/2″ x 8-1/4″) with a page of three se-tenant sets of two mint stamps each (all chairs), followed by 12 more pages of unstamped postcards, with stubs, showing classical Chinese scenes. Our immediate impression when seeing something like this is: wow, someone had to think of it, and execute it. If you are a furniture maker, really, you should have this. Grade: 1