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Tang Dynasty ladies exercising and sewing (book with stamps, covers, and postcards)
Similar in many ways to other Guangdong Philatelic boxed sets, this is a semi-hardcover item in a cardboard sleeve. It measures 8-3/8″ x 11-1/4″ x 1/4″. The book itself has three leaves, for a total of eight facings, and is fully bilingual in Chinese and English, providing in those few words almost all you might want to know about silk scrolls. Contents include detached stamps, one 7-1/4″ stamp sheetlet, three stamped covers, and three stamped postcards (no postmarks) matching the covers. Impressive, historical (Zhang Xuan), and Grade: 1. Our entry 20307496B shows one sample card.
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Cloisonne (Postcards, stamps, covers)
A book measuring 8-1/2″ x 10-1/4″ x 1/4″ in this coloured cardboard sleeve, from Guangdong Philatelic, all in Chinese (except for the words “Stamps Album”). There are six inner pages, which means a total of 14 numbered pages. Each page either has a set of detached stamps, or a stamp sheet, or a stamped cover (envelope), or a postcard like a maximum card, but without any postmarks, to match the facing envelopes. Scan 20307497B shows one of the six stamped postcards. Ask for more details on any of our sets/books like these. Grade: 1
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Cloisonne (Postcards, stamps, covers) – sample postcard
See entry 20307497A.
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Historical renowned town – Tangjiawan (book with stamps, stamped cover, and maximum card)
Another set from Guangdong Philatelic, a semi-hardcover book measuring 8-1/2″ x 11-1/4″ x 1-4″, in a glossy embossed cover. The book has five pages, so a total of 12 facings. Text is entirely in Chinese, though each of the old structures portrayed is also identified in Pinyin. There are detached stamps and stamp sets, and one Maximum Card (issued in May 2013) inside. See 20307498B for a scan of the card. Grade: 1
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Historical renowned town – Tangjiawan (book with stamps, stamped cover, and maximum card) – Maximum Card
See entry 20307498A. By the way, Tangjiawan Town is is Zhuhai, Guangdong Province.
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Confucian philosophy (set of 6)
The scan shows the cardboard cover (top left) and three of six different, high quality glossy unused cards in the set issued by China Post in 2009. Postage stamps are pre-printed. All captioning and text is in Chinese, highlighting such Confucian values as Good Faith, Virtue, and Filial Piety. These are neither the only values nor the only cards. Grade: 1
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Guangzhou, Ling Nan Impression Park Arts (set of 12)
The scan shows the cardboard cover and two of 12 glossy, high quality unused cards (Music, Martial Arts) with pre-printed postage, issued by China Post in 2009. All text is in Chinese. Two sets are available. Grades: 1
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The way to good health (set of 12)
What you see in the photo are the cardboard cover (top) and two of the 12 high-quality postage-preprinted unused cards in the set. Keep good temperament! Enjoy everything with a calm heart! Three sets are available. Grades: 1
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Jin Ling Shi Er Chai (Dream of Red Mansions) (set of 12)
Cover (top left in photo) and three of 12 cards in this unused set commemorating famous Chinese literature, tales of Twelve Ladies from Dream of Red Mansions in Jinling City. One card portrays Lady Lin Daiyu, who would bury flowers when they withered … Issued by China Post in 2009, with pre-printed postage. Two sets are available. (A follow-up set was issued much later.) Grade: 1
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Gold-Gilded Bronze Statues (Maximum Cards) (set of six)
If you are even remotely interested in such icons, these unused maximum cards should be hard to resist. It’s a set of six: two are pictured in our scan. All six are captioned in both Chinese and English, representing several dynasties: Guanyin Bodhisattva (Five Dynasties), Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva (Song Dynasty), Sakyamuni (Ming Dynasty), Amitayus Buddha (Ming), Samantabhadra (Ming), and Manjusri Bodhisattva (Ming). Eight sets are available. Grades: 1
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Xing Yu Xing Yuan – Western Astrology (set of 12)
Scan shows cardboard cover (upper left) and three of 12 glossy cards in this unused set issued by China Post in 2009. All in Chinese except for the astrological signs. The cards have pre-printed postage. Two sets are available. Grades: 1
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Charming Customs of Ancient Towns (folio; maximum cards)
One would think we have a standard way to describe items like this by now. They each pose different obstacles. Issued by China National Philatelic Corporation, this is a book in a 10″ x 10-3/8″ cardboard sleeve (pictured here). Its informative captions are in Chinese and English, but not usually both languages on the same page. It’s a book containing maximum cards (postmarked) and sheets of 15 mint stamps each on alternate pages, so there are eight facings with cards (one is shown as 20307508B) and eight of corresponding sheets. After all that, there are several pages of first-day covers and miniature stamp sheetlets, followed finally by a “Philatelic Passport: Ancient Towns of China (I)” embedded in the inside back cover, though it can be removed. We haven’t tried.
See what we mean? If you want to know more, please ask. It is a nice item, so busy with different things. Grade: 1
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Charming Customs of Ancient Towns (folio; maximum cards) – one page
See 20307508A. Grade: 1
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Dian Cang Zhong Guo Gu Zhen (set) – cover
Please read these notes along with those for 20307509B, 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.
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Dian Cang Zhong Guo Gu Zhen (set) – interior
See text for 20307509A.
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Dian Cang Zhong Guo Gu Zhen (set) – maximum card and stamp replica
See text for 20307509A.
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Dian Cang Zhong Guo Gu Zhen (set) – certificate of assay
See text for 20307509A. But if you can read Chinese, you can go to this website, key in the certificate number (6513714589) and “10” for the weight. We don’t want to create an unwanted web link, so you would need to put this into the correct www format: www dot gold dot gd dot cn/gdtc. It shows “pure silver.”
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Gold and Bronze Buddha Statues Stamp Collection (with postcards)
The title for this item is not wrong, but slightly misleading for our purposes because the book has six postcards in it. We will try to describe: it’s a book inside a cardboard cover (pictured here), overall measurements 8-3/8″ x 11-1/4″. Like many of the other items we have listed, this is a book of 16 page facings (inside covers plus seven pages) including stamp sheets, stamped envelope covers, and postcards in Maximum Card style except that none of these items have postmarks. See 20307510B for one of the pages with a postcard. Grade: 1
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Stamp Company of Zhejiang 1978
We do not know when this card was actually printed, but you cannot find more domestic Chinese than this. Issued by the (state) Stamp Company of Zhejiang, and mailed with a large red rubber bilingual “Surface” chop with stamp and two clear postmarks in 2013. Grade: 1
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Laoshan Velodrome
Stadium used during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, on a card mailed from Beijing in 2013 with pre-printed Olympics stamp, extra “real” stamp, and postmark. There’s also a tiny Olympics logo printed on the back of the card. Grade: 1
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Dream Postcard (set of 5)
This is a cello-wrapped set of five unused cards, of which we show three in the scan. The fourth part of the scan shows an additional informative sheet about the publisher, along with a strip of QR Codes that you can presumably stick on each card when you send it. The large character means “love”. Thoroughly modern. Grade: 1
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Shenzhou spacecraft programme (set)
We believe this item commemorates the totality of the Shenzhou element of China’s manned spaceflight programme. You’ll need to see the scans for 20307525B,C, and D in addition to this one, which is the cover of a book measuring 9-3/8″ x 12″ x 1/2″. As far as we can tell, up to the time of printing there had been ten Shenzhou (“Divine Land” in Mandarin) spacecraft. The small dark thing you see in the middle of the circle is a metal token (coin) made from remains of Long March 2F, a manned orbital rocket. See 525B,C, and D for more descriptions. Grade: 1
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Shenzhou spacecraft programme – first inside page (set)
This scan shows the inside front cover page of the book, into which the coin is firmly embedded. The individually numbered certificate of authenticity is here. Following this, 13 pages of three linked postcards each, all with coloured pre-printed postage. See also scans 525A, C, and D.
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Shenzhou spacecraft programme – separate sheet (set)
This is a separate sheet that comes with the book. We might be missing some nuance of the instruction, but it looks like the idea is to scratch off the silver surface (and there are many) and key in the matched numbers with a password to join a lucky draw. Prizes could have included joining a live show, “big prizes,” movie tickets … but only available until April 2014. See also scans 20307525A,B, and D.
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Shenzhou spacecraft programme – one page of postcards
Visualise 12 more pages like this one also. See descriptions and scans for 20307525A,B, and C. Grade: 1
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Year of the Snake postcards, currency, and more (set)
This bound item measures 8-5/8″ x 13″ x 1/2″ in its cardboard cover. Scans 20307526A through E give you an idea of what’s inside. Remove the sleeve and open to the inside front cover (526B) with text. Facing that (not shown), a Happy New Year sheetlet with what looks like four stamps, but they’re not postage. Turn the page to see two facing pages, each with many currency notes of special serial numbers. Scan 526C shows one of those two pages; notes on the facing page are 1RMB and the serial numbers for those end in three identical numbers (111,222, etc.). Several more thick pages follow, with actual stamp sheetlets, mint stamps, and the like. Then three more facings, each with two pieces of joined postcards having pre-printed postage (scan 526D). As if all that was not enough, on the inside back cover, see scan 526E — that’s a credit-card-sized 3D Buddhist blessing. Grade: 1
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Year of the Snake postcards, currency, and more (set)
See 20307526A.
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Year of the Snake postcards, currency, and more (set)
See 20307526A.
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Year of the Dragon – postcards and currency (set)
Similar in concept (and execution) to 20307526, but without the blessing. This book, in its cardboard sleeve, measures 8-5/8″ x 11-5/8″ x 1/2″. Scan 527A shows the front cover. Scan 527B shows the inside front cover. 527C shows one of two pages of notes ; the other page is a different denomination but the same serial numbers. 527D shows the postcard contained within, an individually numbered lottery card with pre-printed postage. There are also stamps in various forms on the other pages. Grade: 1
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Year of the Dragon – postcards and currency – postcard (set)
See 20307527A. Grade: 1
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16th Asian Games, Guangzhou 2010 (series)
Please read this information together with all scans between this one and 20307542. That should explain almost everything. Then, if you have any question, ask us.
This is a series of 42 unused cards issued by China Post and showing various events and symbols associated with the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou in 2010. Some of these cards are about these specific games, and some are about earlier or related events. All cards are Grade: 1, and the price per card is US$3. The card you see in this scan was #1 in the series, though this specific card has been sold.
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16th Asian Games, Guangzhou 2010 (series of 42 – cards #4-7)
See 20307529. We should mention here that all cards in this whole series have pre-printed postage on the reverse. Card A is “A He”; Card B is “A Ru” (in red); Card C is “A Yi” (in green), and Card D is “Le Yangyang” (in orange).
