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How typical this is of a contemporary Chinese street scene–outside the financial districts, that is. That’s a grain and oil grocery store. Mailed in 2012 with stamp, postmark, and various chop marks. Grade: 1

Code: 20307392
Price: $3.00
Guangzhou, Tianhe Section
We are often in Guangzhou and can attest that this view changes by the minute. The card was mailed in 2012, is captioned “The booming Tianhe section” (an understatement), has stamp, full postmark, and some tiny stickers of vegetables–along with some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 4

Code: 20307393
Price: $3.00
Mt. Danxiashan, Cruise on Jinjiang River
Mailed in 2012 with large stamp, postmark … Grade: 2

Code: 20307394
Price: $3.00
Quantung and Fokien map
The map is old, the card is recent, and mailed from Taiwan (not PR China!) in 2012 with two stamps and trilingual Air Mail sticker affixed. Grade: 2

Code: 20307395
Price: $3.00
Lunar New Year 2012 lottery card
We are well past Chinese New Year 2012 now, but here are two more unused cards issued by China Post, with numbers 494575 and 494586. They have pre-printed postage, and no, we don’t know if the deadline is past for claiming your winnings! Grades: 1

Code: 20307396
Price: $2.00
Music Hall, The blooming ceiba
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

Code: 20307397
Price: $3.00
Beijing, Qian Che Hutong
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

Code: 20307398
Price: $4.00
Qingsong Comic, the summer rainbow
This artistic take on a rainbow represents the 26th Universiade held in Shenzhen, a massive athletic competition. Mailed in 2012, three large and different stamps, and full postmark. Really a very nice card. Grade: 1

Code: 20307399
Price: $5.00
Handover ceremonies, banners
This ceremony marking the 1997 handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China took place in China, with Hong Kong as the main subject of the activities. There were plenty of red banners to wave, and they appear on this unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20307400
Price: $5.00
1997 handover ceremonies, Hong Kong and Chinese flags in PRC
Again, in China, with large China flag and many small Hong Kong ones, befitting. Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20307402
Price: $5.00
1997 handover ceremonies, balloons
Unused card. Grade: 1

Code: 20307403
Price: $5.00
Little Expert of London 2012 (set)
We often refer to “innovative products from China Post,” and this is one of them. We almost need a YouTube video to describe it. First, it’s “IOC Authorized Product of London 2012” Olympics. Now, as you see the photo, imagine lifting up the string and unfolding the red cover to reveal four attached postcard cartoon-type drawings of London landmarks, each with a PRC stamp affixed. Then there is a page of four extra stickers that children “should be guided by adults” to place on the cards; and, finally, one more page with a mint British stamp. Definitely one of a kind and a very special postcard set. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20307404
Price: $39.00
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

Code: 20307405
Price: $41.00
Curio shops on Shanghai Old Street
What fun it is to paw through all the stuff for sale in areas like this. Card mailed in 2012, with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20307406
Price: $3.00
Happy New Year (of the snake) 2013 – CNY lottery card
4″ x 10-5/8″, unused card published by China Post. Being a lottery, and like other cards earlier in our website, it has its own distinct number. The stamp is pre-printed. Part of the card is a perforated stub with addresses and phone numbers. Grade: 1

Code: 20307407
Price: $3.00
Shining Past – outer sleeve, and book cover
Our total description of this item requires four entries–a record for us, so far.

20307408A shows the cover (and also heavy cardboard sleeve) of this hardcover book, measuring 10″ x 14″ x 3/4″. The four large title characters say “Shining Past,” and the smaller characters at the top say “Red path stamp collection.” Don’t worry, there are postcards as well in here. As for the book, it is larger than our scanner, so the full cover is more than what you see here.

20307408B shows the inside front cover of the book, which has seven very heavy pages in all, not including inside front and back covers. If you can read Chinese, this explains everything.

20307408C shows one sample page (out of five) of sets of Maximum Cards. In each case, the facing page is a sheet of stamps the same as what you see on the cards (20307408D is another example). Cards and stamps are not glued in, but rather behind plastic holders or held securely by cardboard like an old photo album would have done.

And, near the front, is one page with one very large stamp highlighted. Altogether this is a really beautiful item, among the best of its kind from China Post. Everything is unused, of course.

Code: 20307408A
Price: $179.00
Shining Past – inside front cover of book
See 20307408A.

Code: 20307408B
Price: $179.00
Shining Past – sample page of maximum cards
See 20307408A.

Code: 20307408C
Price: $179.00
Shining Past – sample page of corresponding stamps
See 20307408A.

Code: 20307408D
Price: $179.00
Flags, Celebrating 18th National Congress (softcover book of cards)
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

Code: 20307409
Price: $63.00
Olympic Games (book of 27 cards)
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

Code: 20307410
Price: $52.00
City scenes (set of three maximum cards)
The scan shows all three unused maximum cards, issued by China Post. There’s a little more information on the back of each, but all in Chinese. Three sets are available. Grades: 1

Code: 20307411
Price: $14.00
Shenzhen, glass art – lottery card
Unused lottery card with pre-printed postage. Grade: 1

Code: 20307412
Price: $4.00
Shenzhen, reservoir – lottery card
Unused lottery card with pre-printed postage. Grade: 1

Code: 20307413
Price: $4.00
Merry Christmas 2012 – lottery card
Unused lottery card with pre-printed postage. Grade: 1

Code: 20307414
Price: $3.00
Lottery card
Unused lottery card with pre-printed postage, issued by China Post. Grade: 1

Code: 20307415
Price: $3.00
Lottery card 2012 – dragon
Unused lottery card with pre-printed postage, issued by China Post. Grade: 1

Code: 20307416
Price: $3.00
Lottery card 2012
Unused lottery card with pre-printed postage, issued by China Post. Upper edge is perforated. Grade: 1

Code: 20307417
Price: $3.00
Lottery card 2012 – Love
Unused lottery card with pre-printed postage, issued by China Post. Upper edge is perforated. Grade: 1

Code: 20307418
Price: $3.00
Lottery card 2012 – Happy Birthday
Unused lottery card with pre-printed postage, issued by China Post. Upper edge is perforated. Grade: 1

Code: 20307419
Price: $3.00
Best Wish For The New Year (2012) – lottery card
Unused lottery card with pre-printed postage, issued by China Post. Left edge is perforated. Two of these cards are available. Grades: 1

Code: 20307420
Price: $3.00
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf (set)
What you see in this photo is the front cover of a thin but large (8-1/4″ x 11-1/4″) folio. Open it up to reveal, on the inside left, a small unused postcard from the Guang Zhou Postal Bureau (China Post) under a plastic cover; and, on the inside right, a sheet of eight 80-fen stamps each with se-tenant perforated stub of a different cartoon character. You can see the card as 20307421B. Leave it to China to come up with something like this. Grade: 1

Code: 20307421A
Price: $22.00
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf (the card in the set)
See 20307421A for details of this curious postcard novelty set.

Code: 20307421B
Price: $22.00
Beijing, National Aquatics Center
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

Code: 20307423
Price: $5.00
Huitong
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

Code: 20307425
Price: $2.00
Xiaobi Pavilion in winter
Mailed in 2012 with one real stamp added to another pre-printed one (because the card was issued by China Post), this is Diaoyutai, the national guest house in Beijing. Grade: 1

Code: 20307426
Price: $3.00
Shanghai, Pudong International Airport
For collectors of airport postcards, this 2012 card issued by China Post and mailed from Shanghai with one real stamp next to another pre-printed one. Full postmark. Grade: 2

Code: 20307427
Price: $4.00
Suzhou, Confucian Temple
Mailed in 2012 with two different stamps and Beijing postmark, this card is one of 12 views of Suzhou–which is closer to Shanghai. Red bilingual “By Air” chop also appears on the reverse. Lower and upper edges are perforated, so this had been part of a link. Grade: 1

Code: 20307428
Price: $3.00
Shanghai, Xintiandi at Night
If any postcard could ever reflect China’s current dilemma, it’s this one. Mailed in 2012 with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20307429
Price: $3.00
Harbin, Hengtoushan Forest Park
We like this postcard for several reasons, maybe not corresponding to yours, but here are ours anyway: (1) it’s a lottery card issued by China Post, with the (2011) number stub still attached; (2) it has two other, different, real stamps adjacent to the pre-printed one; (3) readable postmark; and (4) it’s just a very busy “local view” card. Mailed in 2012. Grade: 1

Code: 20307430
Price: $4.00

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