Tibet, Lancet, Linzhi and Peach Blossom Collection (Tibet, PR China)
If you Google “Linzhi” you will learn that Linzhi (Ganoderma lucidum) is a medicinal mushroom. Because this remarkable set of 12 cards (our scan shows the front cardboard cover) has no trace of mushrooms in it, we know Google actually wanted to say “Nyingchi”, also known as Linzhi or Nyingtri, a prefecture-level city in southeastern Tibet Autonomous Region. The administrative seat of Nyingchi is Bayi District. First, the cards: they come from the Tibet Linzhi Regional Tourist Bureau. All card captioning is in Chinese. They show the range of spectacular mountain peaks, a sunset in Namjagbarwa, and so on. Now imagine you were on a tour all around there, and at each significant stop, each of these cards received a different-coloured, multilingual chop mark to signify where you had been. Including the Grand Canyon of Yarlung Tsangpo, there are at least five of these chops on each card. As we said, remarkable and iconic. And, yes, a couple of the cards have peach blossoms. Otherwise unused. Grade: 1
Name: Tibet, Lancet, Linzhi and Peach Blossom Collection (Tibet, PR China)
From: THEMES/Mountains
Code: 34300486
Price: $89.00