We sell Chinese vintage postcards, used and unused
Imperial China 1900: Chinkiang Post. Peking vintage postcard (railway station and coal hill ) with 3 Jinjiang ( Chinkiang ) stamps.
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Sent as postcard from Chinkiang to Altenburg in Germany. Forwarded by French Post in China. Altenburg – arrivalmark.
Franked by a 15 Cents and 2 Half-cents local stamps, tied by bilingual Chinkiang Postal Service – cancellations.
Fine condition. Very scarce!
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Vintage postcard from 1900 with portraits of General von Hoepfner, Major v. Madei, Major Christ and Major v. Kronheim.
Left and right of the portraits a German marine and a soldier with uniform for China can be found.
Used as postcard in 1900.
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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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Chinese vintage postcard after a cartoon by Friedrich Schiff, an Austrian Jew who lived in Shanghai during the 1930s and 40s.
In 1930 Schiff visited Shanghai and ended up living there for 14 years,until 1947 when he moved to Buenos Aires.
His amusing caricatures of the city’s inhabitants, from beggars and expats to sailors and sing-song girls became famous world wide.
The Viennese Friedrich Schiff society (oegcf. Prof. Gerd Kaminski) has a huge collection of his paintings, drawings and cartoons and set up a permanent exhibition of his works.
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Imperial China, Boxer Upraise 1901: Imperial Chinese Post 1 Cent postal-card.
Peking Deutsche Post 20/1 01 – cancellation.
Square violet strike: S. B. 1/l Oa. J. R. and Bestellt – strike. Good condition.
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Scarce, tripartite Chinese vintage postcard: Kilangsu-Amoy Full view. Franked with 2 stamps, one cancelled to order, tied by a bilingual Amoy 1922 – cancellation.
Unused, good condition, minor aging at left and right side.
Postcard after a photo by Ying Fong.
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Old Chinese postcard with 2 Chinese prisoners in Kangs and 6 western soldiers.
3 overprinted stamps.
From Shanghai to Tianjin to Poiters in France. Clear cancellations, good condition.
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Old Chinese postcard: “Unveiling of the Iltis Monument”. The postcard depicts the monument with 2 German marines.
Franked with a pair of 5 Pfennig overprinted stamps. Shanghai Deutsche Post 17/4 1899 – cancellation.
Sent as postcard to Freising in Bavaria. Lower left corner creased otherwise good condition.
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Vintage postcard “Der Krieg in China” (The War in China). The postcard depicts German ships, marines, a Chinese (Li Hong Zhang) and a satirical poem:
Li Hong Zhang, think twice,
don’t make us Germans angry,
’cause we Germans we can’t
take a joke – you will see!
Unused, light toning from age.
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Chinese vintage postcard with tribunal scene, executioners, torture devices with sword. “Un tribunal a Moukden”.
Russian and French imprints. Unused, very fine condition.
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