For this and all cards in the “Maximum Cards” category, please read the descriptions and review the scan carefully in case your definitions are not the same as ours.  If you have any question, please ask us. 

Four of these sets are available.  In their cases, each set measures 5-5/8″ x 8-1/4″ (the cards are not this big) and each case is made so that it can sit upright on a table, like a picture in a frame.  Each set contains six different cards, similar to what you see here.  We call them “Maximum Cards” because the affixed stamps represent the same sport as the card they are on, even if the artwork is different.  Unused and in exactly the same condition and wrapping as received from China Post.  Official Olympics logo on a sticker on the back of each case.  Grades: 1

Four cards in original Correios de Macau wrapping.  For collectors of Chinese New Year products, brilliant.  Grades: 1

Two sets of four unused cards are available, in original Correios de Macau wrapping.  For collectors of Chinese New Year products, brilliant.  Grades: 1

This is the outer glossy cardboard cover of a set of six unused, different, genuinely spectacular 3D-effect cards, made of that ridged plastic, and that change their picture as you move them around in your hand.  The scans can’t show this, but as an example, item 39600007B (our next entry) is one of the cards.  The scan shows hands holding grain in a wind farm, but from other perspectives you can see city skylines and a bullet train.  Other cards have cultural, labour, and military themes.  Each card comes stamped with a mint Y1.20 stamp on the reverse, almost putting these into the Maximum Cards category.  We have three sets available.  Special postage rate applies — please ask us.  Grades: 1

For this and all cards in the “Maximum Cards” category, please read the descriptions and review the scan carefully in case your definitions are not the same as ours.  If you have any question, please ask us. 

Lots to say about this terrific maximum card.  First, we’re not 100% certain of how we have described the location.  There’s a Chinese caption on the reverse that would be correct, but we got what we know from Google.  Next, the stamp and postmark on the front (from 2009) are real.  Next, the reverse has four stamps and three postmarks, so basically this card has everything.  Grade: 1

This is a set of ten cards with artistic renditions of sporting stadiums and venues for the summer games.  Each card is like a Maximum Card by having a stamp from the games on the front, but the stamp is the same on each card and has the cartoon mascot.  Next to the stamp is a small actual photo of the larger artwork on the front of each card.  There is no postage pre-printed on the reverse, but details of the designer, engraver, authorizations, etc.  All of these are packed in a very hard and thick cardboard box, which is what you see in the scan.  An attached ribbon helps open the lid.  This is very durable; the reverse of the cover explains the games and these “engraving postcards” in Chinese and English, and also has a holographic sticker vouching for authenticity.  That’s all we can say!   Grade: 1

For this and all cards in the “Maximum Cards” category, please read the descriptions and review the scan carefully in case your definitions are not the same as ours.  If you have any question, please ask us. 

We have two mint sets of these 4″ x 6″ maximum cards (four different cards per set), issued by Hongkong Post and still in their original cellophane wrapping.  These are first-day-of-issue stamped and specially postmarked on the front of each card.  Grades: 1

A set of three unused pieces of postcard artwork as Maximum cards, the complete set in cardboard wrap as issued by China National Philatelic Corporation in 2007 and postmarked accordingly.  This scan shows the front of the cover only.  See also entry 39600014B for one of the three cards.  Two sets are available.  Grades: 1

Wow.  Issued in 2007 by China National Philatelic Corporation (and postmarked accordingly), this set of six unused cards is captioned entirely in Chinese but shows traditional actors.  The cards themselves are embossed, and the overall effect is stunning.  This scan shows one of the six cards.  Grade: 1

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 39600016BB shows the other half of the front.  Grade: 1

In the original cellophane wrapping, you’ll find a set of four unused cards, 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.  We list this under Maximum Cards because they come close–but not completely.  Grade: 1

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.  Two of these sets are available, issued in 2012 by China Post.  Grades: 1

On the front:  as you see in the scan, more or less Maximum Card design with official postmark at time of issue (2000) and then more in 2012 when the card was mailed.  On the back: pre-printed pre-paid Australia worldwide postage, and address label taped on.  Grade: 4

On the front, a maximum card with clear postmark, nearly matching stamp, and two rows of orange postal barcoding.  On the reverse, “Postage pre-paid Australia for posting in Australia and delivery worldwide,” postmarked.  Grade: 3

The scan shows all three unused maximum cards, issued by China Post.  There’s a little more information on the back of each, but all in Chinese.  Three sets are available.  Grades: 1

What a card … the stamp on the front has a hologram (of course, with fireworks, and the year 1999) corresponding to this First Day of Issue postmark (1 November 1999).  Then, on the back, Australia Post’s “Postage pre-paid Australia for posting in Australia and delivery worldwide”.  Mailed in 2012–please note that.  There’s no postmark apart from the original First Day mark on the front.  The sender’s name and address are rubber-stamped on the reverse.  Grade: 2

Our total description of this item requires four entries–a record for us, so far.  Here we go:

39600030A 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.

39600030B 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.

39600030C 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 (39600030D 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.

See 39600030A.

The front is as you see–brilliant.  The reverse has two other, different stamps and full postmark, mailed in 2012.  Just a classic Maximum Card.  Grade: 1

Mailed in 2012.  Grade: 1