Werner...I am getting older and my eyesight is failing...I can barely see the bridge..never mind the train..
Robert, being even older than you are,I know the problem ! That is why I like engraved stamps so much: I can feel the images by touch.
Werner: I like this series too, but it is a complicated one to identify with the different printings. I am trying to put together a set of the Second Peking Printing (1923), but it is slow going as I have so few source for Chinese stamps. Don
Don, there is one thing I regret most in my "collector-life",that is not having started a China-collection,when it was the time to do so. I spent my funds on countries like the US,UNO,Germany and others = money wasted. So I have a small China-collection only. I remember my father having bought a packet of chinese kiloware. About sixty years ago.It contained pre-war stamps only. The 4 and 5 C. Sun-Yat-sen of 1931 and the 8 C. 1938 were pre-dominant.But there were also a few "Junks". Washing these stamps was an adventure,as the gum was jelly-like thick and extremely sticky. I was fascinated by these stamps,but unfortunately not enough to start a serious China-collection. Now I have very few "Junks" and I suppose not one of them is a London Printing. Werner
issued May 19th,1948 (exists also perforated 14) Sailing ship,air-plane and stamps on stamps: can you ask for more ?
