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Beijing, National Stadium
The front of this card is fine. The back has address labels affixed, pre-printed postage, two extra stamps, and two postmarks. Grade: 4
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Ancient culture (Maximum Cards) (imperfect set of 6)
Sorry for this messy scan but we wanted you to see each card. These are exactly as we got them from China Post. Five of the six are OK, but the one you see on the lower right has a flawed stamp and no postmark. Yet they let it go through. Because of that, the whole set gets a highly reduced price. Grade (because of that one card only): 4
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China Screen: Tianzifang, Shanghai
We gave up trying to research this novelty card … when we tried to go to the manufacturer’s website, it crashed our computer. And the card is as hard to describe as it was to scan. Think of the coloured area as a two-section film strip, coloured; not like an old-style film negative, but real photos in celluloid. Up close it might seem that each card has a unique photo(s), but we’re not sure about that either. In any case it’s unused and very, very contemporary. Grade: 1
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Shanghai National AAAA Tourist Attraction
Unused item. It is an official Government (China Post) postcard with pre-printed postage on the side you don’t see — adjoining a QR Code if you are really curious. “SUPEC” is the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center. And it does look like it is or was worth RMB30 to get you into something. Grade: 1
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Beijing and Shanghai, M Restaurants
Unused 3-3/4″ x 8-1/4″ ad card from this famous and still-trendy chain. Grade: 1
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Beijing, M Capital
Unused 3-3/4″ x 8-1/4″ ad card from this famous and still-trendy chain. Grade: 1
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Shanghai, M on the Bund
Unused 3-3/4″ x 8-1/4″ ad card from this famous and still-trendy chain. Grade: 1
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Shanghai fold-out map of four attached cards
What you see in the scan are three of four cards, all attached to each other se-tenant fashion. It all folds out, and the fourth card is just the natural extension of the other three. Unused. The wrapper (not shown) has two QR Codes that presumably explain more. Grade: 1
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Temples (set of 2)
These are actual stamps on the fronts. Too bad China Post didn’t go all the way and make them as Maximum Cards, but we don’t always get what we wish for. Unused. Grade: 1
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Fruits (II) (Maximum Cards) (set of four)
From China National Philatelic Corporation, this set MC-113 of four maximum cards, issued in 2016. Our scan only had room for three of them, plus part of the fourth, and the fruits include apricot, grape, watermelon, and lychee. If you really like fruit postcards, these should fill the bill nicely. Unused. Grade: 1
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Shanghai Old Views (set of 20)
This is an unopened set measuring 5-1/8″ x 7-3/8″ of 20 postcards. The scan shows you the back of the cardboard cover (still in unsealed plastic film) and therefore we suppose those are thumbnail views of the cards inside. The front of the cover (not shown) is a larger composite view of the Bund and a coy lady, along with some Chinese and English text. Keeping in mind that “old” in Shanghai means “yesterday,” we remind you these are new cards with old views. Grade: 1
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Military (Maximum Cards) (set of 4)
You see all the cards in the scan, a nice unused set from 2007. Coloured cardboard cover. Two sets are available. Grades: 1
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70th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (folio)
This item measures about 7-1/4″ x 10-1/4″. What you see in the scan is the cover and the postcard it contains on the inner facing page. On the other facing page, a first-day cover (2015), two stamps but no postmark. Chinese and English text. Grade: 1.
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Lane – black & white
Unused. Grade: 1
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Lane – colour
Unused. Grade: 1
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Lunar New Year (of the Snake) folio – 2013 (set of 4)
Sorry for the messy scan but we wanted to get as much in it as we could. The item measures about 6″ x 8-1/4″, and the front cover is as you see at the bottom of the photo. Above, the front and the back of two of the similarly themed cards inside. A total of four very brightly coloured and designed cards. Grade: 1
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McDonald’s – Trust – Hygienic Wash Hands
In the same spirit as some of our other McDonald’s/China entries (see 20307626 as an example), this self-promotional item is labelled (in English) as a postcard so we have no hesitation listing it. Basically it says: trust our hygiene, the staff wash their hands for 20 seconds every hour. The reverse is also blue-coloured, but in postcard format. Unused, from 2015. Grade: 1
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McDonald’s – Trust – Hostess Service
Similar in approach to 20307771. Unused. Grade: 1
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Let’s McDonald’s Together – Trust – Filet-O-Fish
Similar in approach to 20307771, but only lines and logo on the reverse. Unused. Grade: 1
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Let’s McDonald’s Together – Trust – Fries
Similar in approach to 20307771, but only lines and logo on the reverse. Unused. Grade: 1
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Teapot (Set of 3) (Maximum Cards)
From 2007, this set of three maximum cards (unused) in a cardboard cover. The cover appears on the lower left of the scan, along with the three cards. Two sets are available. Grades: 1
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Sichuan scenery
Mailed in 2015 with stamp, postmark, and a hotel chop maybe indicating it was sent from there. Grade: 2
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Xinjiang, Collecting Grapes
Beginning a series of unused 4″ x 6-1/2″ cards from this remote and exotic province. Grade: 1
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Xinjiang, Dabancheng Wind Power Station
Continuing a series of unused 4″ x 6-1/2″ cards from this remote and exotic province. Two of these are available. Grades: 1
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Xinjiang, Uyghur Musical Instrument Store
Continuing a series of unused 4″ x 6-1/2″ cards from this remote and exotic province. Grade: 1
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Xinjiang, White Harbah
Continuing a series of unused 4″ x 6-1/2″ cards from this remote and exotic province. In our ignorance, we thought “White Harbah” might be the species of tree, but in fact it’s the name of a village. Grade: 1
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Xinjiang, Arts of Pottery
Continuing a series of unused 4″ x 6-1/2″ cards from this remote and exotic province. Grade: 1
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Xinjiang, Aidakli Mosque
Continuing a series of unused 4″ x 6-1/2″ cards from this remote and exotic province. Grade: 1
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Xinjiang, The crouching dragon bay
Continuing a series of unused 4″ x 6-1/2″ cards from this remote and exotic province. Two of these are available. Grades: 1
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Xinjiang, The Diversiform-Leaved Poplar Forests
Continuing a series of unused 4″ x 6-1/2″ cards from this remote and exotic province. Grade: 1
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Xinjiang, The Wrestle on the Horseback
Continuing a series of unused 4″ x 6-1/2″ cards from this remote and exotic province. Two of these are available. We think it’s a terrific card, looking so much like an expensive painting from the 1700s. Grades: 1
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Xinjiang, Tu Yu Gou
Completing a series of unused 4″ x 6-1/2″ cards from this remote and exotic province. By the way, one Chinese source gives the location as “in the middle piece of Flaming Mountain, Shanshan County, 47km East of Turpan”. Grade: 1
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GuangXi, Clouds surge up around the hills of fairyland
This is a pretty card, with captions in four languages. Stamp and postmark from 2011. Red bilingual Par Avion chop. Grade: 1
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2006 Lunar New Year Chinese Government lottery card 842926
It’s too late for you to win the lottery (details on the back of the card), but don’t feel bad. The prizes are, let’s say, usually “modest”. Mailed in 2010, with a Dog stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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2009 Lunar New Year Chinese Government lottery card
Mailed in 2011, with three different stamps, two postmarks, and red bilingual airmail chop. Grade: 2
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2012 Lunar New Year Chinese Government lottery card 386965
See our entries 20307267 or 38000054 for details. Grade: 1
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2012 Lunar New Year Chinese Government lottery card 491231
See our entries 20307267 or 38000054 for details. The lottery’s over! Grade: 1
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2012 Lunar New Year Chinese Government lottery card 058609
See our entries 20307267 or 38000054 for details. The lottery’s over! Grade: 1
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Yellow River (set of 10)
This set of ten cards focuses on scenes near or on the Yellow River. Issued in 2015, each card has a similar (and postmarked) stamp on the back. Our scan shows two fronts and one back, for your reference. We wish they were Maximum Cards, but the stamps are on the reverse. Otherwise unused. Two sets are available. Grades: 1
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China’s dream of the people’s happiness (folio)
Entry 20307794A shows the cover of this 8-3/8″ x 11-1/4″ item, typical of many other PR China folios: inside front and back covers plus five very sturdy cardboard pages containing assorted individual stamps, stamp strip, stamp sheetlet, stamped envelopes, and four stamped (on the front) postcards. Nothing has a postmark, so the postcards are not maximum cards. Entry 20307794B shows the four postcards. Grade: 1