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Eight Weirdies in Shaanxi Province
Probably the residents of Shaanxi don’t see themselves as “weird” but the domestic card does. Mailed in 2011 with pre-printed postage plus one extra stamp, postmark, and red bilingual Par Avion “chop”. Grade: 1

Code: 20307373
Price: $5.00
Panda
Superb and sturdy panda postcard from a perspective not often seen. The card was mailed in 2012 with a really very large stamp, postmark, and red “Par Avion” chop. Grade: 1

Code: 20307374
Price: $3.00
Hutongs of Beijing
Mailed in 2011 or 2012, with two large and different stamps, and address label affixed, this card of Guozijian Street explains the 700-year history. Grade: 3

Code: 20307375
Price: $3.00
Shenzhen 2011 Summer Universiade – Photo A (multiple items)
Please read this description carefully. The item measures 11-5/8″ x 16-5/8″ and is in its original shrink wrap, unopened. It is also about 1/2″ thick. It is very, very sturdy cardboard casing. The front includes a jigsaw puzzle and we think the inside includes three maximum postcards as well as another jigsaw–but we are not going to disturb the shrink wrap to find out. We got this in Shenzhen. The title says “Let’s put it together!” Photo 20307377B shows the other half of the front. Grade: 1

Code: 20307377A
Price: $59.00
Shenzhen 2011 Summer Universiade – Photo B
Please read this description carefully. The item measures 11-5/8″ x 16-5/8″ and is in its original shrink wrap, unopened. It is also about 1/2″ thick. It is very, very sturdy cardboard casing. The front includes a jigsaw puzzle and we think the inside includes three maximum postcards as well as another jigsaw–but we are not going to disturb the shrink wrap to find out. We got this in Shenzhen. Photo 20307377A shows the other half of the front. Grade: 1

Code: 20307377B
Price: $59.00
Twice-cooked pork recipe
Odd-shaped card mailed in 2011 with large stamp, an extra sticker, red bilingual airmail mark … Grade: 1

Code: 20307378
Price: $4.00
Shanghai, Night scene of the Bund during 2001 APEC Summit
Mailed in 2012, this (somewhat) unique card has one perforated edge. It has one stamp and full Shanghai postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20307379
Price: $3.00
General View of Canton, China
Unattributed and unused early 20th-century card. Whether it was made for sale to expatriates in China or in USA, we can’t say, but we suspect the latter because of instructions in the postage section. Grade: 2

Code: 20307381
Price: $2.00
Farm and rural motif, and tou lou (set)
This is a set of six unused 4″ x 7-1/4″ cards in the cardboard cover you see here. Three of the cards have pre-printed postage; three don’t. There are long captions for each card, but only in Chinese. All artworks (not photos) include a farmer, fish, chickens in a barnyard, peacocks, and so on. If you are interested, we will be happy to scan the individual cards for you. Two sets are available. Grades: 1

Code: 20307382
Price: $9.00
Dim sum (set of 8)
Like dim sum? You’ll love these. It’s a set of eight unused, postage pre-printed cards in the folder you see here, called “Lingnan Cuisine” referring to the area south of the Nanling Mountains. Each card highlights a different well-known dim sum item. And tea! Grade: 1

Code: 20307383
Price: $14.00
Furniture (set of four)
In the original cellophane wrapping, you’ll find a set of four unused cards, like Maximum but not postmarked, and each portraying an item of traditional furniture. This scan shows one of the four cards. The set was issued by China Post in 2012. Grade: 1

Code: 20307384
Price: $8.00
Chinese Musicians (Maximum Card) (set of 4)
The upper half of the photo you see shows one of the four cards in this set. The bottom half shows the wrapper the cards normally live in. Each card has a different musician, identified as Ma Sicong, He Luting, Liu Tianhua, and Xiao Youmei. That large red area says “extreme postcard”, which we think is the same intention as “maximum cards”. Issued in 2012 by China Post. Grade: 1

Code: 20307385
Price: $14.00
Shenzhen Grand View (folio) – cover
This particular item measures 7-1/2″ x 7-7/8″ x 1/4″ thick. It looks like a menu in an upscale restaurant in China. Open it to find the first two pages each with a postcard whose front is entirely Chinese text, and whose reverse has pre-printed postage. There are five solid pages (12 facings overall), with a postcard representing one part of a long panoramic art view of Shenzhen. Above the card on each page (in a plastic sleeve) is a stamp matching that particular card. So these are like Maximum Cards, but the stamp is above the card, not on it, and not postmarked. And more pre-printed postage on each card’s reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 20307386A
Price: $79.00
Shenzhen Grand View (folio) – sample page
See 20307386A.

Code: 20307386B
Price: $79.00
Shenzhen Grand View Conjoined Stamped Post Card (boxed)
Please read what we wrote for item 20307386, then imagine all of those cards attached as one very long horizontal card. They (it) are in this hard box, measuring 6-1/4″ x 8-3/4″ x 1″. Odd postcards indeed … Inside the box, an ornate certificate (all in Chinese) and the “card” itself, in foldout format, with a nice introduction in English explaining that this extraordinary card is crafted from a scroll painting “which takes cityscape as the creation subject in Chinese history.” The scroll itself is 18 meters long and 0.85 meters wide; the card is not that long of course, but “starts from Dapeng Peninsula in Longgang Town in the east, and Baoan International Airport in the west.” The card is the length of 19 normal postcards. Grade: 1

Code: 20307387
Price: $99.00
90 Years 1921-2011, boxed set
We will start with the hard box, measuring about 6″ x 11″ x 2-1/4″. This is what you see in the scan. Open the flap, and it unfolds on both sides to reveal an inner box containing another hard but semi-open container in a cardboard sleeve. Inside this: a 2″ pile of conjoined postcards, each with pre-printed postage and a large extra connected tab with full explanations of each card–but only in Chinese. No, we have not extended this long string of cards to its full length to count them. If you’re interested, please ask. The cards seem to represent everything that happened in China for those 90 years. It is impressive. Grade: 1

Code: 20307388
Price: $139.00
Abridged Armilla (Maximum Card 1 of 2)
In 2011, PR China issued Maximum Card MC-95 (2-1), captioned “Abridged Armilla,” with Chinese stamp and Chinese postmark. It also issued companion card MC-95 (2-2), captioned “Equatorial Armillary Sphere,” with Denmark stamp and Danish postmark. We have two of each card (see them as codes 20307389 and 20307390), everything Grade: 1. Just one card will be $6, but if you buy one of China and one of Denmark (as a set), the set will be $9.

Code: 20307389
Price: $6.00
Equatorial Armillary Sphere (Maximum Card 2 of 2)
In 2011, PR China issued Maximum Card MC-95 (2-1), captioned “Abridged Armilla,” with Chinese stamp and Chinese postmark. It also issued companion card MC-95 (2-2), captioned “Equatorial Armillary Sphere,” with Denmark stamp and Danish postmark. We have two of each card (see them as codes 20307389 and 20307390), everything Grade: 1. Just one card will be $6, but if you buy one of China and one of Denmark (as a set), the set will be $9.

Code: 20307390
Price: $6.00
The Three Gorges Dam
Issued by the PRC State Postal Bureau, with preprinted postage and three extra stamps, and three full, clear 2012 postmarks. Address label affixed. Grade: 4

Code: 20307391
Price: $4.00
Shop
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

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