China 1968 PRC General Issues Mao's Youth, SG2403

China 1968 PRC General Issues Mao's Youth, SG2403China 1968 People's Republic of China General Issues 8f Mao's Youth "Chairman Mao goes to Anyuan (Liu Chunhua), SG2403. Superb unmounted mint example with full original gum. The stamp features a painting by Chinese artist Liu Chunhua, which portrays Chairman Mao as a young man on his way to Anyuan, a small town in Jiangxi province where he worked as a labour organiser in the early 1920s. Mao's work in Anyuan was a crucial period in his life and set

and remained in his personal collection for decades

There's also a 12

Each man has signed his name above his image

A very fine used example neatly cancelled by large part Nuku'alofa circular date stamp

British Antarctic Territory 1977 Silver Jubilee 33p

Canada King George V 1922-31 3c carmine

upper right corner plate '2' and imprint block of 4

being kidnapped and murdered in the "Crime of the Century" in 1932 - a result of Lindbergh's fame - his family moved overseas

Pane centrally folded to fit in a philatelic album

Just over a year or so later

the Royal Mint conducted a series of experiments and trials to improve the making of recess plates by borrowing some of the manufacturing techniques of the letterpress process

pellets above