1878-83 Large Dragon. 1878 Large Dragon 3ca brown-red, 2 1/2mm spacing on thin paper, mint hr, very fine. (Image)

1897 Dowager Empress 1c on 1ca, second printing wide spacing, in mint left marginal block of 8, very fine multiple. (Image)

1897 Dowager Small Surcharges. 1897 Empress Dowager, first printing, small figure, 8c on 6ca brown in vertical strip of three with error IMPERFORATE HORIZONTALLY IN BETWEEN mint left marginal, very fine and scarce (Image)

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)

1948-49 Gold and Silver Yuan Issues. 1949 Silver Yuan Domestic Unit stamps for West Szechwan, set of 26, unused without gum as issued, very fine. (Image)

Chinese Republic. 1913 London Printing 1/2c to $10 mint set of 19, mint lh or mint hr, the $2 with part gum, very fine and fresh. (Image)

1932-34 Martyrs of the Revolution, Peking printing, 40c orange showing major re-entry with much of the design doubled, particularly visible in the 'sun' above Gen Hsing's head, Shanghai cds, fine and scarce (SG 420a £250). (Image)