China Filatelie, vol. 39, whole nr. 153, May 2008

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1-2 From the editor, from the board

2 25 years ago, a short look back on the December 1982 issue of the Bulletin

2 Wanted: Concorde postmarks, requerst from a collector

2 Rare China stamp: Tien An Men with rays of sunrise, rejected design

3-6 Postal forgeries of China’s Junk, Reaper and Hall of classics stamps are shown and discussed. Information for this review-article is brought together from many sources, including auction catalogues.

7-8 Housing in China. The types of houses shown on stamps from the 1986-91 set are described; continuation of the similar article discussing the other values in #140 of this publication.

9-11 New set of Birds from Taiwan; the birds are discussed.

12 A postcard from Taiwan describes two different paper types for the 1959 type: white and gray, the latter issued later.

13 The “Flying Date” cancels of Taiwan were used on post that had to wait before being forwarded by air in the 1950-51 period.

14-15 50^th Anniversary of Postal Service Today was celebrated in Taiwan with a special sheet and envelope, among other things.

15 Rare China stamp: 50 pf German Reichspost black and violet on rose paper with provisional Tientsin overprint.

16-18 Old Chinese sculpture is shown on several maximum-cards

18 Rare China stamp: 2 cents Red Revenue with overprint inverted; one copy with the final s in cents inverted too!

19-24 New issues PRC and Taiwan

24 Souvenir sheet showing UNESCO world heritage sites in Suzhou en Nanjing

More information on this publication from the editor:

Johan Sevenhuijsen

Rietkraag 10

3121 TB Schiedam

Netherlands

e-mail: j.a.sevenhuijsen@hro.nl