Sale No: 5
Lot No: 1157
Symbol: O/*
Cat No: Collection
1885-88 Small Dragons group comprising 1ca used x7, 3ca mint (minor thin) & used x6 and 5ca used x4 plus a crude fake, various cancels including 'CUSTOMS/KUNMING' in red, also Large Dragons 3ca red (slightly trimmed perfs at top) plus a few 1894-97 Dowager Empress unoverprinted issues including 1ca & 3ca * and 9ca, 12ca x2 & 24ca used plus an apparently imperforate 3ca *, condition mixed. None are expertised; so offered strictly 'as is'.
(Qty 30) (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 550.00
Sold...AU$ 750.00
Closed..May-20-2021, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 750
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 1158
Symbol: **/*
Cat No: 96
1897 Imperial Chinese Post ½c dull purple SG 96 complete pane of 20 with full margins at top & base and narrow inter-pane margins at left & right, second unit from left in top row with Large Colour Dot between 'CHINESE' and 'POST', top units with hinge remainders otherwise unmounted, a few blemishes on gum side, Cat £40+ for mounted.
1938-41 Sun Yat-sen Characters Watermark $20 ultramarine & purple Die III SG 500B complete sheet (10x5) with all margins (minor fault at L/L below one unit only) including 'PRINTED BY DAH TUNG BOOK CO.LTD. H.K.' imprint at base and Chinese characters imprint at top plus various guillotine guidelines and a reversed '20' at L/R which was apparently intended to have been trimmed off, some perf separation, a few adhesions & blemishes on gum side with minor gum thinning affecting one unit otherwise in margins only, Cat £1500+ for mounted.
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 1164
Symbol: */O
Cat No: Collection
TREATY PORTS MUNICIPAL POSTS: Group mostly mint including Amoy 1895 set (ex 2c Type I) and 1896 15c & 20c plus 'Half/Cent' on 5c used, Chefoo with various Smoke Tower issues plus 1896 Pictorial set, Chungking 1894 Pagoda set, Foochow 1895 set (the ½c used), Hankow 1893 2c 5c & 10c plus 1896 Pictorials set, Ichang 15ca Otter & 1m Pheasant (thinned) plus 3m Map used, Nanking Double-Lined Lettering 5c 10c & 20c and Single-Lined Lettering ½c to 4c all CTO, Shanghai with a range of 1866-89 Dragons, 1890s Arms, overprints, postage dues, etc, condition quite variable with some toning. Likely to include a number of reprints and/or fakes: none are expertised so offered strictly 'as is'.
(Qty 150+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 525.00
Sold...AU$ 700.00
Closed..May-20-2021, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 700
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 1165
Symbol: #
Cat No: 31-43
MANCHURIA - NORTH-EASTERN PROVINCES: 1946-48 Sun Yat-sen re-engraved set SG 31-43 horizontal pairs, no gum as issued, a couple with minor blemishes, Cat £360+. The 'Kingdom' character (immediately to the left of the sun emblem at centre-top) on the re-engraved plates has a solid frame at left; on the original plates the character's outer frame has gaps at top-left & bottom-left.
(Qty 26)
JAPANESE POST OFFICES: 1914-25 Tazawa Definitives 20s claret, 25s olive, 30s chestnut, 50s chocolate and 1y green & chocolate SG 43-47 each overprinted with 'China' characters at base in black, all unused without gum, some uneven perforations, plus 1899-1908 Chrysanthemum Definitives Line Perf 11½x12 25s pale blue-green overprinted in red SG 16A * (discoloured gum), Cat £1380 for mint. (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 75.00
Sold...AU$ 210.00
Closed..May-20-2021, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 210
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 1167
Symbol: */O
Cat No: numbers
JAPANESE OCCUPATION: Mint & used range of overprints mostly on Sun Yat-sen & Martyrs issues for Shanghai and for North China including Honan, Hopeh, Shansi, Shantung & Supeh, on exchange sheets identified by SG numbers, some duplication, condition generally fine to very fine. None are expertised so offered strictly 'as is'.
(Qty 500+) (Image1)
Estimate AU$100
Opening AU$ 105.00
Sold...AU$ 190.00
Closed..May-20-2021, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 190
Japan
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 1348
Symbol: **
Cat No: 280
1935 New Year's Greetings 1½s Mount Fuji SG 280 sheetlet of 20, couple of minor bends in the margins, lightly hinged in margin only with the stamps unmounted, Cat £600 for mounted.
1939-56 National Parks selection including 1939 M/S, 1949 Yoshino-Kumano set & M/S, 1949 Fuji-Hakone M/S, 1950 Akan M/S, 1951 Towada M/S, 1952 Chubu-Sangaku imperf M/S, 1952 Bandai-Asahi imperf M/S, 1953 Shikotsu Toya imperf M/S, 1953 Ise-Shema imperf M/S, 1953 Unzen imperf M/S, 1954 Jo-Shin-Etsu Kogen imperf M/S, 1955 Chichibu-Tana imperf M/S, 1955 Rikuchu Kaigan imperf M/S and 1956 SaiKai imperf M/S, the stamps all **, the M/Ss either ** or no gum as issued, all M/Ss except 1939 accompanied by individual souvenir folders, condition generally fine to very fine, Cat £750+.
(Qty 14 stamps; 14 M/Ss; 13 folders) (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 380.00
Sold...AU$ 525.00
Closed..May-20-2021, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 525
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 1350
Symbol: C
PICTURE POSTCARDS: Nippon Yusen Kaisha shipping company artist PPCs of various Japanese traditional subjects & a couple of non-traditional ones, each also with various vignettes of SS 'Nikko Maru', one with a corner fault & a few with minor blemishes on the reverse, unused. Truly beautiful postcards.
(Qty 8)
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 1351
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
PICTURE POSTCARDS: Small box with collection of mostly unused Military types from the Occupation of China & WWII many with attractive watercolour illustrations, a few are used under cover & two - one with a scissor cut - are postally used, high propaganda content, some non-military types are used, condition variable but many are fine to very fine.
(Qty 71) (Image1)
Estimate AU$200
Opening AU$ 150.00
Sold...AU$ 170.00
Closed..May-20-2021, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 170
Picture Postcards
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 1173
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
Coiled Dragon frankings 1) Undivided Back uncaptioned temple to GB with 4c tied by Peking & British PO in Shanghai cds, creased; 2) & 3) Divided Backs Chas Gammon 'In a Chinese Village' (group of local children) and Tabuqueiria Filipina 'Chinese ploughing the ground' (peasants with buffalo) both to USA with 2c green pair & Japanese PO in Shanghai transits; 4) Undivided Back CH 'Shanghai - Soochon creek' (terrific view of boats approaching the pier) to Wales with 1c only & two other stamps removed; also two 1921 cards to Japan each with Junks ½c x3; and Peter Nissen (Hamburg) Undivided Back 'Gruss aus Shanghai' with rounded corners but unused.
(Qty 7)
Scenes of Canton x4, Peking, Shanghai x2 & 'The great Iron Bridge on the Yellow River (Pehan Railway)' (very unusual for having a row of Chinese characters), five with Undivided Backs, all postally used to GB x6 or Australia x2 with Hong Kong KEVII frankings tied by British PO cds of Canton x2, Shanghai x4 or Hong Kong x2
(Qty 8)
1902 JM (Paris) Undivided Back artist card 'CHINE/LA COIFFURE/DE L'ANTIQUITE/A NOS JOURS' by Paul Dufresne being a series of hairstyles for fashionable women plus three dudes for good measure, unused. A really beautiful card.
1904 Alterocca Undivided Back artist card 'The Emperor of China gives andience [sic; for 'audience'] to the Foreign Ministers, soiled on the reverse, to GB with Hong Kong 4c tied by British PO in 'SHANGHAI' cds. An evocative image of both European imperialism & obsequiousness.
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 1178
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
1952 colourful propaganda PPCs on quite flimsy stock featuring deliriously happy children doing all manner of Western activities and ethnic minorities struggling to crack a smile, three feature Chairman Mao, two with ink messages otherwise unused. Very early PRC emissions.
(Qty 19)
Amoy: Mee Cheung (Amoy) Undivided Backs 'Chinese wells' of women & children drawing water & doing washing, 'Street scene' with three well-dressed women, 'Kulangsu Temple' and 'Memorial Arch, and Divided Back 'The Masonic Hall and Recreation Ground, Kulangsoo, Amoy', very fine to superb unused.
(Qty 5)
Tientsin: 1906 (circa) De Vinna (?) real photo card 'THE WAY THEY FIX ROADS IN TIENTSIN' of a pig-tailed overseer watching about 16 bare-footed men hauling a heavy concrete roller, unused. A fantastic social history card.
Tientsin: Undivided Back ¾-view of 'IMPERIAL HOTEL' with rickshaws in the street (unused); Franz Scholz (Tientsin) Undivided Back of a smiling dwarf (very fine unused); and framed coloured views of 'Astor House hotel' & 'International Bridge' both used under cover, minor soiling.
(Qty 4)
1916 Chemins de Fer de l'Etat Chinois, Ligne du Lung-Hai cover to Australia with Junks 1c & 3c x3 tied by 'SUCHOWFU' cds, 'NANKING' and 'SHANGHAI' b/s, censored in transit at Hong Kong with chamfered-boxed 'PBC' [Passed By Censor] cachet in violet on face, a few blemishes.
1931-49 commercial airmail covers comprising 1931 to China at 55c rate, 1937 to Germany at $1.05c, 1937 internal at 15c, Hyper-Inflation 1946 to USA at $2600 and $3500, and 1949 to USA at $20,000, fine to very fine; plus a few stamps & 1937 Clipper illustrated cover to USA via Hong Kong.
(Qty 7 + stamps)
1950 (Dec 5) airmail cover from a Baptist missionary at "Sichang Sikang/China", to California with excellent Three Issue franking of Foundation of the Republic $2000, Surcharges on NE Provinces '50' on $50 orange pair & Peace Campaign (Dove) $400 tied by Chinese-language cds, bilingual 'CANTON' transit cds, on arrival redirected to Australia with superb 'GLENDALE/CALIF' d/s. A ripper!
GERMAN POST OFFICES: 1915 printed Prisoner of War envelope with 'Hilfstation / fur Deutsche u. Osterr-Ungar Gefangene / in Siberien' imprint on the flap, to Pomerania with 4c on 10pf & 10c on 20pf tied by 'TIENTSIN' cds, red & black/white R label, 'WITZMITZ' arrival b/s, light vertical fold. [From late-1915, all POW mail was sent unstamped]
TAIWAN: 1942 Japanese Occupation British unstamped postcard to "2078653 Sapper MA Rooney, 288th Field Coy Royal Engineers, Singapore...c/- Japanese Red Cross, Tokyo" with 'NORWICH/NORFOLK' cancel, crowned 'PASSED/P.W.5917' British censor cachet in magenta, on arrival in Singapore endorsed "OVS 27/10/42" by the Bureau of Records & Enquiry at Changi for forwarding to an overseas camp, censored with Japanese boxed Sazawa Unit censor cachet in violet and marked "1 Ei" in red crayon characters to indicate Camp 1 English for Kinkaseki Camp in northern Taiwan, couple of minor blemishes. [Most next-of-kin were not advised where POWs were held until late-1942, but from January 1943 onwards mail from Great Britain was usually addressed directly to Taiwan]
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 1678
Symbol: O
Cat No: Collection
Small used collection to late-1960s with just a few earlies then 1899-1904 set (ex 2a green; 28a corner fault), 1905-08 set (ex 1a and 3a violet & slate), 1908 Jubilee 18a, 1910 set, 1912 Vajiravudh 10b, a few overprints, 1941 Palace 5b, 1961 Bhuhimbol set (ex 4b), 1963 set (ex 20b & 25b), 1966 Games set, 1967 Birds set (ex 20s), 1968 Fish 4b, etc, condition a little variable but mostly fine to very fine.
(Qty few 100) (Image1)
Estimate AU$150
Opening AU$ 115.00
Sold...AU$ 115.00
Closed..May-20-2021, 18:00:00 EST
Sold For 115
Sale No: 5
Lot No: 1679
Symbol: C
Cat No: Collection
PICTURE POSTCARDS: Group with Ursulines Missionaires (Bangkok) lovely photo of nuns & children at lunch, Siam Photo Studio 'BULLOCK CARTS, SOUTHERN SIAM', Y Ebata & Co 'Prachedi Klang Nam', J Antonio Undivided Back 'Wat Cheng', no publisher 'SIAMESE MAIDEN' (maybe 8 years old, looking into a magnificent ornate mirror), and three 1940s (?) cards (two with plain backs; proofs?)
(Qty 8)
