This 4-1/2″ x 6-7/8″ card was mailed in 2012 with stamp, postmark, and a beautifully written (and extensive) message in Chinese–and we don’t know where this Music Hall is.  We do know that the ceiba trees are usually found in tropical areas–which China isn’t usually famous for.  Grade: 2

We’re not certain if this is the same as Qianshe Hutong or not.  These traditional alleys are fast disappearing in Beijing.  The card lives on.  Mailed in 2012, with three stamps and two postmarks, along with extra faint red chop mark.  Grade: 1

Again, in China, with large China flag and many small Hong Kong ones, befitting.  Unused card.  Grade: 1

Unused card.  Grade: 1

See 20307408A.

This is a softcover book, measuring 8″ x 8-3/8″, with a removable yellow sleeve (cover, and sleeve, pictured separately).  The title of this book, Flags, is accurate but misleading because the flag on each card is always the same–China’s national flag–and appears on the end stub of the card.  Here is how the book is organised:

Open to the inside front cover, and facing page, of much Chinese text and what is (to us) a mysterious diagram that looks a lot like a musical score, but with numbers and words instead of notes.  The next leaf is a type of semi-transparent onion-skin page divider with Chinese text and some graphics.  The next leaf consists of two se-tenant postal cards with pre-printed postage (not maximum cards):  one is a scene of Yida Huizhi and the other of Jinggangshan.  The book has 19 leaves altogether, including the dividers; the cards range from sepia to full color.  Cards have Pinyin titles but no English, and altogether there are 18 cards, two to a page.  Unused, of course.    Grade: 1

The photo you see is a softcover book of 27 postage-preprinted cards, each one representing a different Summer Olympic Games, beginning with Athens in 1896 and ending with London in 2012.  Each card is attached to a perforated stub giving details of the opening and closing dates, and host country.  The photos on the cards are typical scenes of the country, not sporting events.  Covering all this is a white cardboard sleeve/container with light gold printing–that doesn’t scan well at all.  Unused.  Grade: 1

Unused lottery card with pre-printed postage, issued by China Post.  Upper edge is perforated.  Grade: 1

Unused lottery card with pre-printed postage, issued by China Post.  Left edge is perforated.  Two of these cards are available.  Grades: 1

Very nice card issued by China’s State Postal Bureau.  The pre-printed (Beijing 2008 Olympics) postage of this Olympics arena has been supplemented by an additional, real Olympics stamp.  So this card is 2008 Olympics all the way, mailed in 2012 however.  Grade: 1

We know there must be a good reason, but we can’t figure out why the China State Postal Bureau issues this card as part of a set (it has one perforated edge) with a pre-printed stamp (and full postmark, because it was mailed).  It sure looks like an advertising card, but if you know the back story, please tell us.  Grade: 2

Honest, we don’t know whether the (unused) card was printed in this colour or just became this way.  The various Chinese and English captions on the back are in a similar light brown.  Odd, and therefore hard to grade.  But if it is what it is, we assign Grade: 2

Mailed in 2012 with stamp and full postmark, this card has perforated edges on top and bottom, proving that it had been part of a linked set.  Grade: 1

The basic description of this is similar to that for #20307459 except that this volume is dedicated to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a patriotic united front organization.  All this is explained inside the book.  The stamps and card are not quite the same, but this is clearly a companion piece to #20307459.   Grade: 1

This unused item could be a school or office notebook, as it’s filled with 50+ blank (lined) pages.  What makes this a postcard item is six pages on heavy stock (see our entry 20307461B), each with two calendar months of 2013 and with artwork of two joined postcards, each one of those having pre-printed postage and lottery tickets similar to those on many other of our entries.  (Just imagine that the photo you see in 20307461B is two postcards, each with lottery number and printed postage; and that there are six of those pages.)  There are also other pages, with Chinese text.  This whole softcover notebook measures about 8-3/4″ x 11-1/4″ x 3/8″.  Grade: 1

The water sports stadium built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics on a card mailed from Beijing in 2012 with stamp, full postmark, and red “Par Avion” chops.  Captioned in seven languages, this is about as good an example of contemporary Chinese postcards as you can find.  Grade: 1

Dalian is an attractive city in northern China, one of many that few outsiders ever get to know.  The card has one pre-printed stamp and one real stamp, with full postmark, and red “Surface” chop (unusual) as well.  There is a small, inconspicuous postal tear on the bottom edge.  Grade: 3

Another specialty set from the Guangdong office of China Post, issued in 2012.  Together with entries 20307468B and C, we describe it here.  The entire item is encased in a cardboard cover (8-1/2″ x 11-1/4″ x 1/2″) as you see in 20307468A (The other side of the cover looks similar but without the cut-out window.)  Including the inside front and back covers, the book itself has 12 page facings of which some are mint stamps, some are postcards, and some are envelopes–stamped in “Maximum Card” style, but without postmarks (see 20307468B and C).  Interior text is all in Chinese, and each individual page is exceptionally rigid and sturdy.  Note the elaborate decorations.   Grade: 1