1897-1911 Imperial Post. 1897 Tokyo printing 1/2c to $5 mint set of 12, some short perfs as usual and some a little heavily hinged, part to large part og, fine to very fine. (Image)

1902 (Mar 8) CIP 1c postal stationery card from Canton to Brussels, showing Tombstone postmark at top centre, uprated with 1898-1909 1c pair and 2c, tied by Canton cds, in combination with Hong Kong 4c tied in transit and French Ligne N octagonal d.s., a scarce combination with Tombstone hs. (Image)

1906 (Aug) "Red band" envelope from Paoting to the New Modderfontein Gold Mine at Benoni, bearing China C.I.P. 10c, with French P.O. Shanghai, Shanghai bi-lingual, Colombo and Benoni arrival datestamps, envelope split open along seem, very scarce destination mail from China. Note: Due to the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer War, most of the gold mines were taken out of production. After the war, the highest economic priority for the new Transvaal Colonial government was to get the mines producing gold again. For this purpose Chinese labourers were imported. (Image)