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1882
1950 (18 Mar.) APort Arthur & Dairen $10 red per-stamp
stationery card to Shanghai, beading 1949 1st surch. with
char. 'Temporarily used for' on Kwangtung Posts with
new value $7 on $5 pale green in red and black, tied by
'DARIEN' Japanese type cds. On reverse with bilingual
Chinese and Russia 'SHANGHAI' arrival cds, and Junk
illustration in light blue on bottom left, sent to a famous
Chinese collector
鍾少爐
. very fine. Photo
HK$ 80,000 - 100,000
Central China
1883
1945 Kaifeng print, Chairman Mao $1 to $ 42 complete
of 6 block of 4 with margin, Yang CC15-20, and 1949
Chairman Mao surch. with new value complete set of 3
block of 4 with margin. Yang CC35-7. Photo
HK$ 2,000 - 2,500
1884
1949 Kuo-Kwong 1st print, Worker-Peasant-Soldier,
$30 in block of 20 with top margin, and imperf between.
Unused. Yang CC68. Photo
HK$ 2,000 - 2,500
1882
1885
1949 (Aug.) registered On Postal Service cover
from Wuho to Hankow, bearing on front "On Postal
Service" (
郵政公事
) and "Wuho Hsien Post Office" (
五河縣郵局
) handstamps in red, HANKOW 29.8.49
cds, backstamped another Hankow 28.8.49 cds, also a
remnant of registration label affixed, fine. (Hankow was
liberated on 16 May, 1949). Photo
HK$ 2,000 - 3,000
1886
1950 (18 Jan.) Amixed frankings of South Central China
Kuo Kwong 2nd print $100 green block of 4 and South
China surch. imperf. $300 on $30 Liberation of Canton x
4 tied by bilingual 'YUNGNING' cds. Fine. Photo
HK$ 2,000 - 2,400
1887
1950 (23 Apr.) A cover to USA, bearing on reverse
South Central China Kuo Kwong 2nd print $70 green
, Liberation of Hankow imperf. $1,000 x 2, tied by
bilingual 'WUCHANG' cds, losing part of top flap.
Photo
HK$ 1,000 -1,200
South China
1888
1949 "Liberation, Temporarily Used For" handstamped
in red on Kwangtung Silver Yuan Surch. on Dr. Sun Yat-
Sen issue, 2-1/2c on $500 mauve (Recess), two blocks
of 4, both with chopw of four types A, B, C & D, one
block with the 2nd stamp bearing "1" shifted to right and
3rd stamp bearing slanting "--" varieties, and one block
with the small "2" of the 1st stamp broken at top, and the
2nd stamp with a bent "--" varieties, unused, no gum as
issued, very scarce in multiple, very fine. (Yang SC12
var.). Photo
HK$ 7,000 - 9,000
1889
1949 "Liberation, Temporarily Used For" handstamped
in red on Kwangtung Silver Yuan Surch. on Dr. Sun Yat-
Sen issue, 2-1/2c on $500 mauve (Litho.), 2-1/2c on $500
mauve (Recess) and 15c on $10 green, all in blokc of 4,
each with chops of four types A, B, C and D, unused,
fine, very scarce. (Yang SC11-13 US$2,000). Photo
HK$ 12,000 - 16,000