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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
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The Great Wall at Badaling
Unused but heavily handled, larger (5-1/8″ x 7-1/8″) card with some storage marks on the back. Grade: 3
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The Great Wall at Jinshanling, night view
Unused card. Grade: 1
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The Great Wall at Simatai (Wangjinglou)
To see this remarkable view, you’ll need to go 138 km northeast of Beijing. Probably worth it. Unused card. Grade: 1
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The Great Wall at Jinshanling, fog
Unused card. Grade: 1
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The Great Wall at Badaling
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Guilin, PingAn Village, Longsheng County, Longji Star-Wish resort
Unused card for a property whose online reviews are enticing. Not far from where we are as the crow flies, but the psychic distance is great. Grade: 1
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2016 Happy New Year
Similar in concept to all our Lunar New Year cards from earlier years. The scan shows you front and back of this typical lottery card. Unused. Grade: 1
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Jade (2 sets totalling 25 cards and 2 stamp sheets)
Using only one scan, we’ll do our best to describe this. There are a total of 25 jade-related official postcards, each with pre-printed postage. These are split into two groups (one of 12, one of 13 cards) and each group has a stamp sheetlet with it. The scan shows the outer cardboard cover of one group; the other cover looks about the same. The scan also shows one sample card–they’re all different even if it takes some effort to see how–and one of the stamp sheetlets. Everything is unused, and the price covers both sets. Grade: 1
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ma po dou fu
Unless you read Chinese, or know about Chinese food, you might not quickly know that this unused card celebrates a particularly yummy Szechuan-style bean curd dish, one of our personal favourites. There’s a good English caption on the back. Grade: 1
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Zhejiang Provincial Museum, artist, set #1 (set of 10)
We shamefully admit our research resources sometimes vanish while we enter cards, and this is one such case. If you read Chinese, there’s an extensive story on the back cover of the set, to explain everything. We have two similar but not identical sets available (see also our entry 20307809), with one focusing on “chops” and the other on art and calligraphy. Scan #20307808 shows the front of the cover (lower left) and two sample cards from the set of 10–all unused. Scan #20307809 does the same for the other set. Cost is per set. Take both for $20. Grades: 1
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Zhejiang Provincial Museum, artist, set #2 (set of 10)
See description for #20307808.
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Hangzhou (set of 20)
We’re showing you the back cardboard cover of this unopened (therefore unused) set of 20 scenes in and around Hangzhou. The set measures 5-1/8″ x 7-1/4″. Grade: 1
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Lever Bros. (China) Ltd., Sunlight Soap ad
High-quality, unused contemporary postcard reproduction of this old advertisement. Grade: 1
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Ankerpils
High-quality, unused postcard reproduction of this old advertisement. Grade: 1