Chinese vintage postcard, depicting a Tianjin street scene: „ Tientsin, Riot March 1912”.
Unused postcard with Lutai-cancellations at front and reverse. 1 cent coiling dragon stamp. Fine condition.
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Gold Loan Certificate of the Republic of China, with all Coupons, 1938
China 1938: 27th Year Gold Loan of the Republic of China (1938) for US-$ 10, #772486, 27.3 x 17.1 cm (13.5 x10.5 inches), buff, brown, green, red, black, vertical fold, Chinese Revenue Stamp, text in English and Chinese, all coupons. Dark blue strike: 華僑 (Overseses Chinese).
Very fine condition.
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Shanghai 1941: Cover from Shanghai to the Copenhagen, multicolor franking, 2 x SYS 30 Fen + martys 20 Fen, tied by bilingual Shanghai cancellation. Nazi censored, red Oberkommando der Wehrmacht strike.
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Authentic photo from the early 1950s. The photograph depicts a railway station with Chinese soldiers returning from Korea war, presenting their decorations.
14,5 x 10,6 cm, good condition. Blue stamp in Russian and English by Xinhua News Agency at reverse, Nr. 36836.
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China appr. 1970. Original small print by the artist 任滿鑫 Ren Manxin, depicting a soldier with gun pointing at an US enemy. Anti- American text at the lower part: 越南必胜行美帝必敗 Yuenan bi sheng, Mei-di bi bai (Vietnam must win, the American enemy must be defeated).
13 x 18,4 cm, good condition.
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Decorative vintage postcard depicting the German WWI steamer Gefion. Portrait of Prince Heinrich.
Used as advertising postcard: “Thüringer Kaffee-Würze, feinste Kaffeeverbesserungsmittel”.
Unused postcard in very good condition.
Gefion initially served with the main German fleet and frequently escorted Kaiser Wilhelm II’s yacht Hohenzollern on trips to other European countries, including a state visit to Russia in 1897. In late 1897, Gefion was reassigned to the East Asia Squadron; she arrived there in May 1898.
The ship took part in the Battle of Taku Forts in June 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion in China.
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Chinese Female Soldiers marching with Korean Flag and Korean banners.
The photo is from app. 1951.
13,5 x 10,8 cm. Press photo with violet stamp in Russian and English: Hsinhua News Agency Peking, China No. 36996.
Bend at left side otherwise good condition.
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China, Tongku. German Lager. Vintage Postcard. Tsingtau, Tongku, app. 1900:
b/w postcard with view at the Lager of the German Forces.
Unused postcard in very fine condition.
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China Mocking Postcard. Deutscher Bund, 1899
Scarce early, lithographed color postcard entitled„ Nur immer rein in den deutschen Bund!” (Just come in and join the German League). The postcard depicts Germans and an American black man with a beer mug. A Chinese soldier with pigtail and a German spiked helmet stands in a door. 1899 sent from Muenster to Dortmund. Slight wear, scarce. |
