“Year of the Dog” on Stamps
Legend states that, when the great Buddha found enlightenment beside an old oak tree, he invited all the animals to his kingdom to celebrate. Only 12 animals arrived, and Buddha promptly rewarded them by naming each new year in honour ...
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
1933 Airmail Letter to a Belgian Missionary in China
I purchased this letter from a UK dealer, when he was in Melbourne before the last International stamp exhibition, which was later held in Sydney. The destination was rare, it was early airmail and it seemed like it may have an ...
Saturday, February 21st, 2009
China and Japan Map (1899)
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China Map (1935)
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China Philatelic Society of London
The China Philatelic Society of London embraces all aspects of Chinese Philately from the Municipal Posts of Treaty Ports of the last century, through to the present day issues of the People's Republic and Taiwan. If you enjoyed this article, you ...
Monday, May 19th, 2008
China sells stamps to help earthquake victims
William Cochrane. Given that China is very much in the news these days, human rights issues, the Olympic Games and the shocking loss of lives in the recent earthquakes, I thought that readers of PDb would be interested to see that ...
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
China’s Train Post Offices – Modern Chinese TPO Postal Markings
Philatelic Database has just acquired a substantial collection of archival material for its philatelic library. Amongst these tomes was a curious journal entitled: Stamps World: “The only academic, informative and interesting stamp magazine in Hong Kong,” published by Philatelic Publications ...
Friday, January 9th, 2009
China, Central and South Map (1935)
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Chinese Empire and Japan Map (Gall and Inglis 1871)
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Direction Markings: Re-Direction Markings Reconsidered
Charles A. Jones. First published in the Journal of the Hong Kong Study Circle, April 2007 No. 341 Introduction Names of ports, such as Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Singapore, are occasionally found as unframed, straight-line markings on loose stamps, post cards, and ...
Evidence of China’s Oldest Post Office Unearthed
A letter written about 2000 years ago and never delivered has provided evidence of China’s oldest post office at an historic site near the famous Dun-huang Mogao Grottoes along the ancient Silk Road. The letter written on a piece ...
Handling of Overseas Mails (1936)
This extremely informative article originally appeared in Shipping Wonders of the World in 1936. It explains in some detail the carriage of letters and parcel posts by ships and their ports of call in the 1930s. If you enjoyed this article, ...
Monday, December 15th, 2008
Hong Kong Study Circle
The Hong Kong Study Circle was founded in 1951 to record and circulate information on the philatelic and postal history of Hong Kong and the Treaty ports. It is U. K.-based and regular meetings are held in London. Provincial meetings ...
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Indo China Map (1886)
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Peking – The Imperial City 1930 (Video)
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Peking Map (1875)
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Postal Beginnings in China: Early Rates & Arrangements (1911)
William Cochrane. There is an extraordinary interest in all things philatelic, related to China. In this account taken from The Postage Stamp (Feb 1911), we have valuable information regarding the early postal rates and arrangements from 1834 onwards. Postal historians of ...
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Probable Issue of stamps for Tibet: A Chinese Foreign Post Office? (1909)
Given the worldwide media attention given to Tibet at present, I thought this very curious philatelic article on Tibet (originally published in The Postage Stamp October 9, 1909) might be of interest: If you enjoyed this article, you might also like...The ...
Shanghai General Post Office Building
The Shanghai General Post Office Building is situated at the north end of the Sichuan Road Bridge, Shanghai, on the banks of the Suzhou Creek. It was built from 1922 to 1924 and designed by Stewardson & Spence. It is presently ...
Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Shanghai Map (1933)
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Slow boats from Danzig to China and back
Giles du Boulay. The message from Danzig on the back of this card is a simple enquiry: why has it been so long since we have heard any news from you? The writer’s anxiety may well have been heightened when the ...
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Stamps of Hong Kong (China): Panda Issue (July 1st 2008)
Hong Kong recently issued a set of stamps featuring a pair of Giant Panda cubs. The promotional material reads: "Le Le and Ying Ying, a pair of giant panda cubs, arrived in Hong Kong in 2007 as a gift from ...
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Taiwan’s Indigenous Stamp Exhibition (Video)
Taiwan's postal services, Chunghwa Post, issues a new set of stamps on the island's indigenous culture on the Indigenous People's Day. There are four stamps in the set featuring objects with patterns and designs from Paiwan, Rukai, Amis and Bunun ...
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Temple of Heaven: the Stamps of China
Some twenty years ago there was still a fairly large number of stamp shops in Stockholm, the Swedish capital. In one of the shops I discovered a set of three Chinese stamps (Scott # 131-3) which I found most attractive. ...
The Amoy Local Posts
After a very cold and windy walk on the Great Wall of China it was quite a change to arrive in the city of Xiamen a few days later. Located in the southern part of Fujian province, Xiamen enjoys a ...
Friday, January 30th, 2009
The Art of Mei Lan-Fang
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
The Ichang Post-Office (1895)
The following article comes from The Stamp News (February and March, 1895) and should be of interest to collectors of China. For the following cutting we are indebted to the Chairman of the "Ichang Public Improvements Committee," who has, however, omitted ...
Friday, July 4th, 2008
The Postal History of Hong Kong
The Postal History of Hong Kong by Edward B. Proud is one of the latest on the Proud-Bailey series of books on the postal history of the British Colonies. It is a mammoth volume with well over 1,100 pages covering ...
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
The Republic Stamp Issues of China (1927)
First published in "Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal" (June 1, 1927) and written by Gordon A. Clayton. The Chinese have, for many centuries past, been in a very lethargic state of mind: their rulers have been able to overawe them, and rule ...
Monday, August 11th, 2008
The Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company
The Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company was incorporated in 1839 by Royal Charter, with a subsidy of ₤240,000. Supplemental charters extending the operations of the Company were granted at intervals, one in 1904 containing an ‘all British’ clause confining control of ...
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
The Stamps of China (1908)
[This excellent article was written by the noted philatelist Edward J. Nankivell and first published in The Postage Stamp, February 1908.] The Chinese Empire comprises what is termed China Proper, and the Dependencies of Manchuria, Mongolia, Eastern Turkestan, and Tibet. China Proper ...
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
Turbulent Tibet: Viewed from a Philatelic Standpoint (1910)
William Cochrane This fascinating article by D.B. Armstrong originally appeared in the British journal, The Postage Stamp (August 20, 1910). It is all the more fascinating, given that it is written in the dying days of the Imperial Chinese Empire. Such ...
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