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Inscribed with a poem or proverb, used on paintings and suchlike. May be large or small, depending on length of inscription.
China, Taiwan (Formosa), Hong Kong, Macau, Republic of China, Peoples Republic of China, Korea, Nepal, Tibet, Mongolia, Vietnam (Indo-Chine), Indochina, Indonesia, Manchukuo, Thailand (Siam) &The Japanese Occupation of China . I also buy stamps from The Treaty Ports: Shanghai, Amoy, Chefoo, Chinkiang, Chungking, Foodchow, Hankow, Ichang, Kewkiang, Nanking, Wei Hai Wei, Wuhu , Kiaochow (Tsingtao), China Expeditionary Force (C.E.F.) and Foreign Post Offices in China. DO NOT SEND ME STAMPS FROM OUTSIDE THESE AREAS. Chinese stamps from before 1950 (Pre-communist china): Reduced stamp sales and withdrawals from issue of several stamps during the Cultural Revolution resulted in a few stamps that are quite scarce, especially used. The typical pattern resulting in rarity was unauthorized sales before the official date of issue by isolated post offices of stamps which were then withdrawn from issue before the official date of issue. One rarity, an unissued 8f stamp from 1967 commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Establishment of Jing Gangshan Revolutionary Base, popularly known as "Big Blue Sky", which pictured Chairman Mao and Lin Biao on the podium overlooking Tienanmen Square exists only as scraps salvaged from the destruction process. Only scraps from one stamp in the withdrawn set are known to exist. [4] It is a particularly fine example for an early Chinese stamp with large part original gum and only light gum toning. Harris, Lane. "The Post office and state formation in modern China, 1896-1949" (PhD. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012) Online. Japan created a puppet state called Manchukuo out of north-east China in 1932. Although the state ceased to exist after the Second World War, it managed during its lifetime to create many interesting cultural chimeras, including stamps. The designs of Manchukuo stamps show the influence of both countries. In fact, the 1944 Friendship Set was printed in both Chinese and Japanese.The definitives of the " Junk issue" went on sale 5 May 1913, and continued in use into the 1930s. The low values featured a junk, while values from 15c to 50c showed a farmer reaping rice, while the dollar values depicted the three-part gateway to the Hall of Classics in Beijing. The series was first printed in London, then in Beijing from 1915; they can be distinguished by close examination. The designs were re-engraved in 1923, and a number of design features were changed; for instance, the whitecaps in the water underneath the junk were removed, and the water darkened. Wang, Chelsea Zi. "More Haste, Less Speed: Sources of Friction in the Ming Postal System." Late Imperial China 40.2 (2019): 89-140. The inscription on these seals usually refers to receiving the Mandate of Heaven or being the successor of Heaven. Another type of imperial seal was the seal the emperor used to issue certain document written in his own handwriting. Emperor Qianlong (1736-1795) in Qing Dynasty, for example, was famous for his literary talent and calligraphy, so he left a large amount of articles and writings affixed with his seal. University of Heidelberg, Germany: Shelfmark: HE6185.C55 T33 1989|title: 大龍郵票與清代郵史 / 中國郵票博物館 編 Ta-lung yu-p'iao yü Ch'ing-tai yu-shih / Chung-kuo yu-p'iao po-wu-kuan pien |Published: 香港: 商務印書館 Hsiang-kang: Shang-wu yin-shu-kuan, 1989 |Description: 212 p.: col. ill. ISBN 978-962-07-5077-9. Language: chi.; eng.|Corp. body: 中國郵票博物館 Chung-kuo yu-p'iao po-wu-kuan|Parallel Title: A picture album of The Large Dragon Stamps and the postal history of the Qing Dynasty|Subjects: Postage-stamps - China - History The Emperors of China also had their own imperial seals to appraise and appreciate art. [4] As such, many famous paintings from the Forbidden City in Beijing tend to have the imperial seals for art appraisal and appreciation of generations of subsequent emperors on them. [4] Leisure seals [ edit ]
This time it is not the frenetic buying activity of the 20 million stamp collectors in China causing prices to rise.Regular government postal service is known from the Zhou dynasty in the 1st millennium BC. During the Yuan dynasty under Kublai Khan in the 12th century, China was integrated into the much larger Mongolian Örtöö system. Marco Polo reported that there were 10,000 post stages during that time. In addition, private letters were carried by the Min Hsin Chu, a system of letter guilds ( hongs). Later the 1727 Treaty of Kyakhta with Russia provided for the first regular exchange of mail.
A chop is necessary for approving decisions relating to the operations and management of a company in China. While ingam is used on important business, other dojangs are used for everyday purposes, such as less-significant official transactions. Thus most Koreans have more than two seals. A famous quote at the time from Louis Mangin, the Managing Director of the Hong Kong auction house Zurich Asia, summed things up: The market then stabilised at this new level and is now in the process of taking off again to new heights.Ji 11. "15 anniversary of the death of Lu Xun." Reprint Stamps "Shanghai Printing Plant" printed pattern in the lower right corner of Lu Xun's more like a dot. "."Original as "Eastern Region Tax Administration printing" print. A Chinese seal (印章 yìnzhāng) is a seal or stamp used to mark important documents, pieces of art, contracts, or any other item that requires a signature. According to the historical records of Tang Dynasty, Empress Wu Zetian changed the name of seal ‘Xi' into ‘Bao', meaning treasure in Chinese, because she disliked the pronunciation of Xi which sounds like death in Chinese. Harris, Lane J. "Stumbling towards empire: the Shanghai Local Post Office, the transnational British community and informal empire in China, 1863–97." Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 46.3 (2018): 418-445.
These seals typically bore the titles of the offices, rather than the names of the owners. Different seals could be used for different purposes: [4] for example, the Qianlong Emperor had a number of informal appreciation seals ( Chinese: 乾隆御覽之寶; pinyin: Qiánlóng yùlǎn zhī bǎo; lit.'Seal(s) for [use during] the Qiánlóng emperor's inspection') used on select paintings in his collection. Used in ancient times as a protective charm on letters to shield the recipient from wild beasts or demons; now used mainly as a well-wishing convention on letters to people who travel abroad as well as a protective charm for the letter to be delivered safely to the recipient. In traditional arts, as in China and Japan, an artist of Chinese calligraphy and paintings would use seals (generally leisure seals and studio seals) to identify their work. These types of seals were called Nakkwan (낙관, 落款). As seal-carving was also considered a form of art, many artists carved their own seals. Seals of Joseon-period calligraphist and natural historian Kim Jung-hee (aka Wandang or Chusa) are considered to be antiques. No matter what the Chinese buy, they drive up prices. That is because of the size of their economy and population. At the New York auction, which ended on May 9, 2013, the leader of the auction was a blue postage stamp of China with an inverted portrait of Sun Yat-sen. In the description to the lot, 1940 is stated as the year of the release, although catalogs date this series to 1941. This issue was printed in New York by the American Bank Note Company. In general, the series is not of particular interest to lovers of exclusive pieces and only such a perfect overprint may be so expensive. As reported in the description to the lot, the copy was discovered in December 1945 by a schoolboy.During the occupation of several Chinese regions by the Japanese (1937–1945), Chinese stamps were originally in use in the occupied territories. Since 1941, Chinese stamps were overprinted separately for Inner Mongolia, Guangdong, North China, Shanghai and Nanjing. And for some areas, locally designed stamps were issued. Ji 9. "Chinese Communist Party thirty anniversary." Reprint the paper is thin, the color of which (58) is not an original clear. For many years, China was not a member of the Universal Postal Union, and while using Arabic numerals for the denominations, did not include the country's name in Latin letters as required of UPU nations. The addition of "CHINA" to stamps' inscriptions began in 1992. Western collectors typically differentiate earlier stamps both by the serial numbers in the lower corner, and by the first character of the country name 中, the "square box with a vertical bar" being visually distinct from the inscription used by any other Asian country.
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