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Post by stoltzpup on Sept 17, 2013 23:46:13 GMT
China C1 - C5 (1921) differ from C6 - C10 (1929) in several minor ways, such as the piping that frames the scene, but mainly in that the logo on the airplane tail has changed from the bars of the Republic flag to the Nationalist sun emblem.  |
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Post by mac1775 on Sept 17, 2013 23:47:41 GMT
The China C1-C6 is a set that has eluded me 2 or 3 times already. Used to be able to get a decent price on them but with China being a hot collecting country they are hard to find a deal on them.
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Post by pilot on Apr 7, 2023 0:06:30 GMT
And if I can add a little more history to this beautiful set, William Grant was especially proud of his designs for, and engravings of, the Chinese airmail stamps. The stamp design shows a Curtiss "Jenny" airplane flying over the Great Wall of China. The Bars of the Republic flag can be seen on its tail. The essay samples in the collection at the US National Postal Museum show that the original design depicted a smaller plane from a different angle, head-on. Also in Grant's collection are five airmail stamps, ranging in denomination from 15-cents to 90-cents. They are proof impressions of the special cachet used at Peking on July 1, 1921 to cancel mail matter on the first airmail flight between Peking, Tsinan and Shanghai.
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