No more chance to win, but this official China Post card has two stamps plus the pre-printed domestic one, two full postmarks, and red rubber-stamped imprints.  Grade: 1

First, please see our item 20307478 (all photos) and read those descriptions.  Here is the difference between this item and that one:  first, this one is bigger (6-3/4″ deep x 10-7/8″ across x 4″ high).  Second, this one is much heavier.  Third, this one has one larger sectional scroll, not two, and a wooden platform to hold it.  Fourth, this one has the chariot outstanding on the inner box cover.  And this one comes with a dainty white cloth glove to handle everything.  The certificate you see is actually–yes–a postcard, with pre-paid postage.  All this is unused, as received from China Post.  Special postage rate will apply, depending on whatever method you choose.  Grade: 1

See our entry 20307496A.

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

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

 

Quite different from our other OCT sets in design, yet still a set of six unused cards with pre-printed postage, issued by China Post in 2011.  The message spaces are taken up by (mostly) sepia-hued miniature replicas of the front drawings, all of which you can see on the back cover in the scan here.  We should also display these under “amusement park postcards” but it just seems like too much.  Two sets are available.  Grades: 1

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

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.

See text for 20307509A.

See 20307510A,

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

Two Olympic stadiums in one 2009 lottery card, mailed however in 2013 with one pre-printed and one “real” stamp and multiple postmark and other “chop” and mailing marks.  Issued by China’s State Postal Bureau.  Some corner creasing during transit.  Grade: 2

One of a series of unused cards, in similar style, issued by China Post for the 2011 Universiade Shenzhen events.  These cards are in maximum-card design, but they are not maximum cards because these stamps you see in the scans are design elements and not postage.  However the cards do have pre-printed stamps on the back.  Grade: 1

One of a series of unused cards, in similar style, issued by China Post for the 2011 Universiade Shenzhen events.  These cards are in maximum-card design, but they are not maximum cards because these stamps you see in the scans are design elements and not postage.  However the cards do have pre-printed stamps on the back.  Grade: 1

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