- (-) Remove The Collection of Imperial Post 4th Postal Cards filter The Collection of Imperial Post 4th Postal Cards
it was affixed with a 1 cent and a 2 cent Dragon stamp. The postcard was marked with a special Kuliang Foochow postmark and Foochow pakua seal, as well as a Fuchien Foochow waist-frame circled cds (the eighth day of the seventh lunar month). It was then transferred abroad from the Foochow French Post Office, together with a Pennsylvania arrival stamp. It is quite rare for the pakua seal to still be in use in the late Qing Dynasty.
via the Shanhaikuan First Railway P.O. It was marked with a Chinwangtao English-Chinese waist-frame lunar year postmark (26th day of the seventh lunar month), as well as a train postmark "First Railway Post / ShanhaiKuan to Peking", and a Peking arrival stamp (Sept 10). The postcard is well-preserved.
affixed with a half-cent dragon stamp overprinted with "Republic of China" in Song typeface. The stamp was cancelled with a half-cut small round Shanghai postmark, and it was transferred through the Shanghai I.J.P.O., with a Kobe, Japan arrival postmark. The Y-X measurement is 2.5mm, meaning the top edge of the postal sign on the right was 2.5mm higher than the top edge of the French text. This is a very important special format of the Qing Dynasty fourth series postal card. There are only six known examples of this distance difference in existence. It is rare to find this special format on an actual mailing.
affixed with a 1c coiling dragon and a 2c coiling dragon stamp. The stamp was cancelled with a red Lanchow letter box "Twelve" tombstone. rectangular handstamp and three Lanchow Chinese-English lunar year cds (JiYou Oct 4), and also cancelled with a full Chinese lunar year cds from Sian, Shansi Province (JiYou Oct 13), and a Peking transfer cds (Dec 12). The card was transferred to the Peking French P.O. (Dec 3) and delivered via the Siberian line to Belgium, arriving on 18 Dec. The postal card is well preserved.
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it was affixed with a 1-cent and a 2-cent Coiling Dragon stamp, cancelled by four SUITINGFU English-Chinese bilingual lunar year cds (16th day of first month in Jiyou year). It was transferred to Shanghai, and on 22 Feb it was forwarded to the I.J.P.O. in Shanghai for despatch on February 23. The postal card is well preserved.
it was affixed with a 1-cent, a 2-cent, and a 10-cent Coiling Dragon stamp, cancelled by three Kalgan, Chihli tri-grid lunar year cds (25th day of third month in Jiyou year). It bears the Peking registered mark "R / PEKING.(CHINA) / No.60", and also cancelled by Peking English-Chinese waist-frame cricled lunar year cds, plus Peking bilingual semi-cut round cds, and Peking French P.O. (17 May). It has two Denmark arrival marks. It is a good registered postal card for collection.
cancelled by the Nanking Chinese-English half-cut small round cds. There was no arrival stamp. Since the Republic of China government was officially established in January 1912, the words "Qing Dynasty" on the postal card were hand-stamped and overprinted in red with "China". In addition, this is an important special version of the Qing Dynasty's fourth postal card, with Y-X = 2mm, i.e., the top line of the postage symbol on the right is 2mm higher than the top line of the French characters. According to field research, only 9 pieces of this special version exist based upon market survey.
with an additional stamp of "2 cents China" overprinted by Germany. The postage symbol was cancelled by the rare Hankow "ROC 1st Year" English-Chinese waist frame cds, and the German P.O. stamp was cancelled by the Nanking German P.O. date stamp. A banknote of Imperial Bank attached on reverse. This piece has Y-X=2.5mm, i.e., the top line of the postage symbol on the right is 2.5mm higher than the top line of the French characters. According to field research, only 6 pieces of this special version exist in the world, and this piece is from the old collection of 嚴平西Yan Pingxi.
it was cancelled by the "Tzeliutsing Changtu Third Branch P.O." three-grid branch office postmark. In addition, it was cancelled by 5 local date postmarks including the Tzeliutsing English-Chinese waist frame date postmark (TZELIUTSING, 2 July), the Siaoki English-Chinese waist frame date postmark (SIAOKI, July 2), the Tzechow English-Chinese waist frame date postmark (TZECHOW, July 3), the Jianzhou three-grid date postmark (Xinhai July 4th), and the Chaokiatu English-Chinese waist frame date postmark. All cds are from small places in Sichuan, and thus rare.
cancelled with three straight-line grid "Techow to Tientsin Postal Car" postmark, and also cancelled with a Tientsin arrival stamp and postal mark. Train postal cancellations are less commonly seen on Qing Dynasty postage cards.
with an additional 1-cent Dragon stamp and 2-cent coiling dragon stamp. It was cancelled with two straight-line "Shanhaikuan to Peking Postal Car" postmarks. On the back of the postage card was a Shanhaikuan Chinese-English small circle cds (Jiyou Aug 16) and a Tangku Chinese-English semi-cut small circle cds (Sep 30). On the front, a Shanghai Chinese-English semi-cut circle cds was added as an arrival mark. Train postal cancellations are not commonly seen on Qing statioonery cards