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Mengkiang original value stamps, p. 476-478; New Peking Sing Ming Print Dr. Sun Yat-Sen issue, p. 478-479; Mengkiang surcharged stamps, p. 480-483; Seventh anniversary of puppet North China General post office commemorative stamps, p. 484-485; Shanghai puppet value surcharges, p. 486-496
Qing dynasty. Although postal service in China goes back some 2,500 years, modern postal services were not established until 1877 by the Qing government. This 1-candareen stamp of 1885 has an unidentified seal cancellation and a postmark from the French post office in Shanghai. A 1/2-cent value of the 1897 issue, lithographed in Japan.
Van Buren appears on the 1938 issue, the 8-cent olive green denomination of the 1938 Presidential Series, a series of stamps whose denominations corresponded with the number of the given president's term. A sculpted bust of Van Buren on display in the U.S. Capitol's Senate Gallery was used as the model for the engraving of the president's image ...
The first Sun Yat-sen definitives were issued in 1931, and were recess printed by De La Rue & Co. of London. In this issue the portrait of Sun Yet-sen is flanked by Corinthian columns. It only exists in the 1¢, 2¢, 4¢, 20¢, $1.00, $2.00 and $5.00 face values on unwatermarked paper, perforated 12½ by 13.
Fumiko, daughter of Sun and Kaoru. Sun Yat-sen was born to Sun Dacheng (孫達成) and his wife, Lady Yang (楊氏) on 12 November 1866. [ 151 ] At the time, his father was 53, and his mother was 38 years old. He had an older brother, Sun Dezhang (孫德彰), and an older sister, Sun Jinxing (孫金星), who died at the early age of 4.
The Presidential Issue, nicknamed the Prexies by collectors, is the series of definitive postage stamps issued in the United States in 1938, featuring all 29 U.S. presidents who were in office between 1789 and 1928, from George Washington to Calvin Coolidge. The presidents appear as small profile busts printed in solid-color designs through 50 ...
The Regular Issues of 1922–1931 were a series of 27 U.S. postage stamps issued for general everyday use by the U.S. Post Office. Unlike the definitives previously in use, which presented only a Washington or Franklin image, each of these definitive stamps depicted a different president or other subject, with Washington and Franklin each confined to a single denomination.
This is a list of the highest known prices paid for philatelic items, including stamps and covers. The current record price for a single stamp is US$ 9,480,000 paid for the British Guiana 1c magenta. [1][2] This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2023. [note 1 ...