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McDonalds – Healthy Eating – Kitchen Hygiene
This item is the size and shape of a postcard, and when you first see the fully pre-printed reverse (main text all in Chinese, a mother’s testimony), you might believe it is not a postcard at all. But it is, and it says so, in tiny print in English: “Apr/13 – iBoard – Postcard – Trust – Kitchen Hygiene”. Compare with our other, similar cards of different colours. If you would like one of each of the three varieties, total would be $12. Grade: 1

Code: 20307627
Price: $5.00
McDonalds – Healthy Eating – Chicken
This item is the size and shape of a postcard, and when you first see the fully pre-printed reverse (main text all in Chinese, about a mother’s concern for her children), you might believe it is not a postcard at all. But it is, and it says so, in tiny print in English: “Apr/13 – iBoard – Postcard – Trust – Chicken”. Grade: 1

Code: 20307628
Price: $5.00
Qingdao, European Jail
Government-issued card, printed and mailed in 2013. It has one pre-printed stamp and one beautiful, large real one, along with full postmark. Faint red airmail chop also. Grade: 1

Code: 20307629
Price: $3.00
Shanghai (set of 36)
This is an unopened set of 36 cards, and the photo shows the front cover. Based on what we see, and on the quality of the back cover too, these are nice cards, a snapshot in time of Shanghai’s constant changes. But we cannot verify what’s in the pack. Great value. It’s a heavy item. Grade: 1

Code: 20307630
Price: $35.00
Beijing’s Hutong (set of 36)
You probably already know two things: (A) Hutong are the fabled residential alleyways in Beijing, and (B) they are disappearing as quickly as we can type this. Here’s an unopened set of 36 cards featuring hutong scenes in all seasons. Very nice, and also heavy. Grade: 1

Code: 20307631
Price: $35.00
New Beijing (set of 20)
We’ve scanned the back cover of this set of 20 cards (minus the original price), so you can see what they are. Facilities, architecture, terminals … all the city’s showcases. Grade: 1

Code: 20307632
Price: $32.00
La Fille aux Cheveux Blancs (modern revolutionary ballet)
This card from Peking’s (sic) Foreign Language Press is unused, old, and extremely smudged from having been handled and passed along many times. It needs to find a permanent home. Extensively captioned, but only in French. Grade: 3

Code: 20307633
Price: $5.00
Bei Jing Dongqu P&T Office 2000 (set of 13)
This odd set is like a window into the past of the issuing “Bei Jing Dongqu P&T Office.” Three of the 13 cards, and the cover, appear in our scan. All the other (unused) cards are variations on this same theme of postal functions. Grade: 1

Code: 20307634
Price: $18.00
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Bid Committee
Here’s an unusual, unused card, with a serial number (3002), apparently promoting the Olympics bid. The captions are only in Chinese, but as we know, the bid was successful and so were the Games. Grade: 1

Code: 20307635
Price: $9.00
Lunar New Year 2008, and Olympics
It’s a Chinese New Year lottery card, with a big “thank you” to security volunteer workers from the State Security Bureau for their diligence and hard work. Serial numbered for a long-finished contest. Unused, with pre-printed postage and issued by the State Postal Bureau. Heavily handled but otherwise unmarked. Grade: 3

Code: 20307636
Price: $8.00
Beijing United Bank Ltd.
This seems to be an unused lottery card from 1997. It’s been heavily handled over the years but is unused. It has pre-printed postage with a kind of cancellation mark over that. In any case it was issued by the Government and not by the bank–which might have been a State bank anyway, so no difference there. And it says how a square of water and soil can support one person. Grade: 2

Code: 20307637
Price: $5.00
EMS 1993 – Lottery Card
Unused though heavily handled and aged lottery card (050601, though you’re not going to win). Pre-printed postage. Grade: 3

Code: 20307638
Price: $6.00
1993 Lottery Card
The back of this card 343439, which we haven’t scanned, is much busier than the front. It will keep you active for hours, trying to figure out what it’s all about. Grade: 3

Code: 20307639
Price: $5.00
Beijing, Imprenable (sic) pass, Badaling Great Wall
This is a lovely card on both sides, mailed in 2013 with three large and different stamps, two full postmarks, and a red bilingual Par Avion chop. As for the Wall itself, it is most improbable how they got such a good photo in this location. If you’re a tourist, go to Mutianyu entrance instead. Grade: 1

Code: 20307640
Price: $6.00
Daddy, where are we going? (set of 30) – front cover + 1 card
As far as we can tell, “Daddy, where are we going?” began as a reality TV show in Korea (MBC) and became popular in China too, on Hunan TV. Here’s a set of 30 unused cards, extra-long to incorporate detachable stubs as you can see in the photo. See also entry 20307642B. Grade: 1

Code: 20307642A
Price: $21.00
Daddy, where are we going? (set of 30) – back cover
See 20307642A.

Code: 20307642B
Price: $21.00
McDonald’s and Apple – scratch off (not a postcard)
Though postcard-sized, unlike similar McDonald’s promotional cards in China, this doesn’t actually say “postcard” in English anywhere on it, and it would be hard to mail as one, though not impossible. The scan shows front and back, with the small silver area being a scratch-off promotion. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20307643
Price: $5.00
YoYo set with 10 cards and more
China Post continues to find new ways to surprise us. See also our entry 20307644B for what’s inside the 11-1/2″ x 8-3/4″ x 3-1/8″ box, and we’ll try to describe briefly. First, a yoyo for the Auldey Yoyo Blazing Team. Lots and lots of instructions on the back of that, but all in Chinese. Next, a “Blazing Teens” anime CD or DVD, we’ve not tried it. Finally, the pack of 10 postcards, each unused and with pre-paid postage. This was produced in 2009, and though it is unused and in good condition, the outer box only has very minor effects of handling. The postcards are Grade: 1.

Code: 20307644A
Price: $139.00
Yoyo set with 10 cards and more – contents
See description for 20307644A.

Code: 20307644B
Price: $139.00
The Supplies Equipments for China Post – money pouch
Please see entries 20307603/617/618/646 for others in this series of six “supplies equipments” (sic) items from China Post. Somehow, for now we have at least one of each of the six items. Apart from being models of things China Post actually uses, these all have one element in common: a small postcard with pre-printed postage enclosed in the box. What you see right here is a cloth money pouch. Grade: 1

Code: 20307645
Price: $36.00
The Supplies Equipments for China Post – different postboxes
Please refer to items 20307603/617/618/645 for descriptions of other items in this series. Because the two in this photo (20307646) are still sealed, we have not broken the seals to show the insides. One is a green pillar box (the taller one); the other is shorter, and while we don’t know the correct name for these, it is green and in the shape of many public mailboxes in the USA. Each box that you see in our photo contains the corresponding postbox along with a small postcard having pre-printed postage. Each is unused and somewhat heavy. Grades: 1. (Price for each of the two items, not both: $62) (or, both for $92).

Code: 20307646
Price: $62.00
Journey to the West – The Monkey King
Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming Dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng’en. It is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. The item here is a book measuring 8-1/4″ x 11-1/4″, and this scan shows the cover. Six heavy, double-sided pages and inside front and back covers have an assortment of postcards, stamped covers, and mint stamps. (See also 20307647B for sample facing.) Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20307647A
Price: $69.00
Journey to the West – The Monkey King: inside sample pages
See 20307647A. Each facing of two pages has a different selection of stamps, cards, and covers.

Code: 20307647B
Price: $69.00
Extra-large cards, scenic views (set) – cover
Please also see 20307648B, which shows the many different contents of this set: cards, more cards, lists … urban and rural scenes throughout China. This box (measuring 9-3/4″ square, by 1-1/8″ deep) is quite heavy, and each of the many picture cards are just a bit smaller than that. Note how China Post in Guangzhou has done this: the pre-stamped card only takes up the centre of each photo. We don’t think they expect people to cut these cards to size, but it would be possible to do. (We haven’t.) Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20307648A
Price: $119.00
Extra-large cards, scenic views (set) – contents
See 20307648A.

Code: 20307648B
Price: $119.00
Spread Buddhism in the World (folio) – cover
A thangka, also known as tangka, thanka or tanka, is a painting usually depicting a Buddhist deity, scene, or mandala of some sort. The thangka is not a flat creation like oil or acrylic, but consists of a picture panel which is painted or embroidered over which a textile is mounted and then over which is laid a cover, usually silk. It is sometimes called a scroll-painting. These thangka served as important teaching tools depicting the life of the Buddha, various influential lamas and other deities and bodhisattvas. We are indebted to Wikipedia from which we have condensed this description, and for this item you should also see our entries 20307649B/C. Buddha blesses you with peace … Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20307649A
Price: $99.00
Spread Buddhism in the World (folio) – postcards
See 20307649A. This item is not as large as it looks in the photo (measuring 6-3/4″ x 9-7/8″ x 1/4″) but is very sturdy. The back of each leaf in the accordion-style foldout is fully printed with text in Chinese only, though the name of this item does also appear in English. Unused. Grade: 1

Code: 20307649B
Price: $99.00
Spread Buddhism in the World (folio) – certificate
See 20307649A. This certificate, printed in detail on both sides, is included.

Code: 20307649C
Price: $99.00
Beijing, National Indoor Stadium
Issued by PRC’s State Postal Bureau with a pre-printed 2008 Olympics stamp, the card was mailed in 2014 with an extra stamp (of the stadium) and two full postmarks. All in all, then, a good example of a stadium postcard. Grade: 1

Code: 20307650
Price: $4.00
Miao Nationality (Maximum Card)
Maximum Card from 1999. Grade: 1

Code: 20307651
Price: $6.00
Gaoshan Nationality (Maximum Card)
Unused Maximum Card from 1999, a special 50th anniversary postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20307652
Price: $6.00
Orogen Nationality (Maximum Card)
Unused Maximum Card from 1999. By now these young fellows are all grown up, probably living in a big city and addicted to Smart Phones. Grade: 1

Code: 20307653
Price: $6.00
Yao Nationality (Maximum Card)
Unused Maximum Card from 1999. Grade: 1

Code: 20307654
Price: $6.00
Uzbek Nationality (Maximum Card)
Unused Maximum Card from 1999. Note the different scripts on the postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20307655
Price: $6.00
Cycas multipinnata (Maximum Card)
Unused Maximum Card from 1996. We can’t find a common name for this Cycas multipinnata, but its range is small (southern China, part of Vietnam) and shrinking, and it is endangered. Grade: 1

Code: 20307656
Price: $8.00
Golden kaiser-e-hind (Maximum Card)
Unused Maximum Card from 2000, of Teinopalpus aureus, whose Western name is also spelled Golden kaiser-i-hind. The butterfly is mostly in southern China and possibly Vietnam. Grade: 1

Code: 20307657
Price: $7.00
Bubo bubo (Maximum Card)
Unused Maximum Card from 1995 of what we otherwise know as the Eurasian eagle owl. Note ethnic script on the postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20307658
Price: $8.00
Tajik Nationality (Maximum Card)
Unused card from 1999. Note again the ethnic script in the clear postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20307659
Price: $6.00
Ewenki Nationality (Maximum Card)
Unused maximum card from 1999. Note again the ethnic script in the clear postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20307660
Price: $6.00
Salar Nationality (Maximum Card)
Unused maximum card from 1999. Grade: 1

Code: 20307661
Price: $6.00

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