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Cultures and Ethnicities: Orientalia and Asian: Furniture: Chinese


What's New in the Collector's Showcase of Cultures and Ethnicities: Orientalia and Asian: Furniture: Chinese?
The Most Recent Additions to This Category are First!
Peoples Republic of China, Cultural Revolution period. 5 authentic bookmarks with revolutionary content. 3 are commemoration the founding of the Communist Party 1921. 7. 1.


One shows the revolutionary hero Lei Feng (雷锋) and one a quotation by Chairman Mao. All 5 are in fine condition.  China, 1960-70s: 2 Chairman Mao badges with a portrait of the Chinese leader Mao Zedong.

One is made of porcelain, diameter 1,8 inches (44 mm), red propaganda slogan at reverse.


One is a pot metal with a Faux Guilloche enamel treatment on the front of the pin.


Diameter: 1,8 inches (45 mm). Very fine condition. At the back are 4 lines with characters engraved, political slogan and referrence to issuer. 1968)  PR China, Cultural Revolution. 3 authentic buttons (badges) with portraits of Chairman Mao (毛泽东像章).


One is made of porcelain, two are red/gold pot metal with a Faux Guilloche enamel treatment on the front of the pins which make the buttons flashy.


2 have characters at the reverse. The one with the catapillar is scarcer. It has been issued by the Revolution Commitee of Ma An Shan Town - 马鞍山市革命委员会. All are in fine condition.


Diameter: 1,6 – 2,1 inches.  PR China, Cultural Revolution. 3 authentic buttons (badges) with portraits of Chairman Mao.

One is made of porcelain, one is enamelled and shows Mao Zedong with a hat, posing in front of factories and one is a red/gold pot metal with a Faux Guilloche enamel treatment on the front of the pin which makes the button flashy.


2 have characters at the reverse, one at front. The brown one, from Hefei, is missing the needle, otherwise they are in fine condition.


Diameter: 1,6 – 2,1 inches.

Cultural Revolution China: 5 Bookmarks $25.00

 

Two authentic Mao Bades from The Cultura $38.00

 

Cultural Revolution in China: 3 Mao Butt $40.00

 

3 Mao Buttons from the Cultural Revoluti $40.00

Mun Shou, Chinese Character, Longevity, serving spoon. Light red with a yellow border. Nine inches long and in excellent condition.  Mun Shou, Chinese Character, Longevity, sauce bowls, set of twelve. Light red with a yellow border. Four inches in diameter. In excellent condition.  Mun Shou, Chinese Character, Longevity, sauce bowls, set of twelve. Light red with a yellow border. Three inches in diameter. In excellent condition.  Mun Shou, Chinese Character, Longevity, bread & butter plates, set of twelve. Light red with a yellow border. Six inches in diameter. In excellent condition.

Mun Shou Longevity Serving Spoon $12.50

 

Mun Shou Longevity Sauce Bowls $40.00

 

Mun Shou Longevity Sauce Bowls $35.00

 

Mun Shou Longevity Bread & Butter Plates $60.00

Mun Shou, Chinese Character, Longevity, serving bowl. Light red with a yellow border. Nine inches in diameter. In excellent condition.  Mun Shou, Chinese Character, Longevity, serving bowl. Light red with a yellow border. Nine inches in diameter. In excellent condition.  Mun Shou, Chinese Character, Longevity, serving bowl. Light red with a yellow border. Nine inches in diameter. In excellent condition.  Mun Shou, Chinese Character, Longevity, serving bowl. Light red with a yellow border.  Nine inches in diameter. In excellent condition.

Mun Shou Longevity Serving Bowl $17.50

 

Mun Shou Longevity Serving Bowl $17.50

 

Mun Shou Longevity Serving Bowl $17.50

 

Mun Shou Longevity Serving Bowl $17.50

Mun Shou, Chinese Character, Longevity, soup bowl. Light red with a yellow border. Eight inches in diameter. In excellent condition.  Mun Shou, Chinese Character, Longevity, soup bowl. Light red with a yellow border. Eight inches in diameter. In excellent condition.  Mun Shou, Chinese Character, Longevity, soup bowl. Light red with a yellow border. Eight inches in diameter. In excellent condition.  Mun Shou, Chinese Character, Longevity, set of twelve soup spoons. Light red with a yellow border. Each is 5 1/2 inches in long. In excellent condition.

Mun Shou Longevity Soup Bowl $10.00

 

Mun Shou Longevity Soup Bowl $10.00

 

Mun Shou Longevity Soup Bowl $10.00

 

Mun Shou Longevity Soup Spoons $35.00

Mun Shou, Chinese Character, Longevity, set of twelve rice bowls.  Light red with a yellow border.  Each is 4 1/2 inches in diameter and has a footed bottom.  In excellent condition.  China 1960-70ies. Authentic photo print, Mao Zedong and Peoples Liberation Army soldiers, clapping hands.

5,9 x 7,9 inches. The photo has been displayed in a kind of touring exhibition in several Chinese communities. Minor creasing at the lower part of the margin – the photo is fine though.  Chinese vintage postcard with cruel scene from the Revolution 1911-12.


2 cents coiling dragon stamp, tied by Hankou cancellation. LUTAI cancellation at reverse. Unused postcard in fine condition.  China 1960-70ies. Authentic photo print, Mao Zedong sitting on a sofa in his library with lots of antique books

6 x 8 inches. Fine condition.


This photo has been displayed in a kind of touring exhibition in several Chinese communities in Anhui province.

Mun Shou Longevity Rice Bowls $65.00

 

Cultural Revolution China: Authentic Pho $38.00

 

Tientsin Peking Revolution 1912. Vintage $40.00

 

Cultural Revolution China: Authentic Pho $38.00

Chinese vintage postcard with cruel scene from the Revolution 1911-12. "Beheaded Looter".


2 cents coiling dragon stamp (probably replaced), LUTAI cancellations at front and at reverse. Unused postcard in fine condition.  China, app. 1910: Vintage photo postcard, depicting a Chinese peasant, standing in a tiny boat, moving his ducks to the shore.


Unused, fine condition.  Antique Chinese postcard from app. 1900, depicting a mother carrying her baby on the back. Published by Sternberg, Hong Kong.


Unused, very fine condition.  Chinese vintage Photo with workers, cleaning the floor between huge stacks of corn.

app. 1930: Original-Photo of workers in the North-East region of China ( Kai Yuan Da Dou Guo He Wai).


Silver bromine photo in brownish tone.


5,8 x 4,4 inches (145 x 106 mm). Black paper remnants from album at the upper part of reverse. Fine condition.

China Revolution 1912 Vintage Postcard $35.00

 

South China Photo Postcard: Man and his $12.00

 

Old Chinese Postcard. Lady with Baby. $22.00

 

Chinese vintage Photo with after Harvest $40.00

Lovely vintage color postcard, depicting 5 little boys in traditional Chinese cloths, making music.


Inscription in Japanese. No postcard lines at reverse. Unused, fine condition. ( 2 minor tears at to and right side).  Chinese postcard with 3 vies of Beijing City Wall, Railway Station, Bridge. National Palace Museum, Peping stamp.


Unused, very fine condition.  Chinese vintage postcard, depicting a Chinese on his mule in front of a watch tower of Peking’s city wall. Bilingual inscription.


Unused, fine condition.  Mongolia: Vintage color postcard with scene in front of a city wall with 4 men and a boy. 2 men are working on wooden wheels.


Unused postcard, published in Japan. Fine condition.

Decorative Chinese Postcard with Kids, m $18.00

 

China: Beijing vintage Postcard, 1920s $16.00

 

China: Beijing vintage Postcard with Cit $18.00

 

Mongolia: Workers on Wheels. Vintage Pos $16.00

Middle Eastern China: Lithographed map from 1902 covering China’s central and eastern provinces Mongolia to Jiang-Xi, Yellow River to Yellow Sea. At the left lower part is a small, more detailed map of Jiao Zhou area.


Published by Brockhaus in Germany in 1902. 6,1 x 9,8 inches, vertical cantre-fold, fine condition.  Peoples Republic of China, Cultural Revolution: Fine porcelain badge depicting Chairman Mao Zedong. Produced by Jing De Zhen factory – who was the sole producer of China during the Imperial times.


The pin shows a portrait of Chairman Mao Tse Dong in military outfit. Revolutionary slogan at back.


Diameter 41 mm ( 1,4 inches). Fine condition.  China, Beijing: Vintage postcard after an oil painting by Carl Wuttke. It depicts the watch tower in Peking.


Unused postcard in fine condition. . Carl Wuttke ( 1849 - 1927 ) was a famous German painter.  Fast Indigo Blue: Decorative vintage advertising print from old China, app. 1910.


Lithograph, depicting Chinese men with pigtails in traditional costumes and a boy, as the paint to dyed textiles on a string.


The inscription is in Chinese and in German. The company was: "Actien-Gesellschaft fuer Anilin-Fabrikation, Berlin", their agent in China: Carlowitz & Co.


Size: 5 x 3,8 inches ( 13 x 9,7 ). Fine condition, very scarce.

Central Eastern China: Old Map from 1902 $22.00

 

China: Chairman Mao Badge in Porcelain. $38.00

 

Old Peking, Watchtower: Vintage postcard $14.00

 

Old Advertising in Chinese. For German P $30.00

Canton and Jinjiang-River: Lithographed map from 1899 covering the area of South China, Macao, Pearl River – Delta.


At the upper right part is a small detailed map of Canton Town.


Published by Brockhaus in Germany in 1899.


6,1 x 9,8 inches, fine condition.  Old Chinese postcard " Hongkew Bruecke in Shanghai".


Vintage postcard from the 1920s published in Germany. At the front side we see pedestrians, bikers, wheel borrows, rickshaws at the bridge.


At the flip side is and advertisement for Medol-brand, a remedy for dog’s diseases such as reuse.


Unused postcard., in fine condition.  Imperial China: b/w vintage postcard, depicting Chinese temples, near Shanghai.


Unused postcard, published by Denniston & Sullivan, Shanghai. Fine condition.  Peoples Republic of China, Cultural Revolution period, the late 1960ies. Mao Zedong ceramic bust , silver paint. At the bottom is a number engraved "14".


This silver painted busts are scarcer than the glazed ones. 4,5 x 2,2 x 5 inches. Fine condition.

China, Canton and Region: Old Map from 1 $24.00

 

Chinese vintage Postcard: Bridge in Shan $22.00

 

Chinese Temples near Shanghai. Old China $22.00

 

Authentic Mao Zedong Bust from the Cultu $70.00

Shanghai, China 1901: b/w postcard from the time of the Boxer upraise. The postcard was sent by the German war ship S.M.S. Woerth to Stotel in Germany.


2 Marine cancellations: Kais. Deutsche Marine Schiffspost No. 23 23/1 01.


Tear at the upper right edg, minor aging. Scarce.


Fine condition.  Old China: Color postcard depicting 2 Chinese ladies, smoking opium.


The postcard has been published in China and has Japanese and Chinese inscriptions.


The postcard has a fault at the left side margin and the left lower corner has a light bend.  Old, Chinese lithographed advertising from the early 1920s. Part of the border and pattern in gold-print.


The image depicts Chinese kids in their typical costumes, having fun.


Size: 6.1 x 8.8 inches. Very fine condition.


It comes from a well protected collection of early Chinese advertising samples.  North- & Central Asia Overview of Russian Empire.


Decorative, engraved, very detailed old map from 1893, covering the Russian Empire with Siberia down to Turkestan, Persia and Afghanistan at the west and Tibet, Chinese Empire and Japan at the east.


Size: 18.8 x 15 inches. Vertical centre-fold, a 0.8 inches tear at lower part of the centre-fold. Minor toning of the paper along the margins. All in all fine condition with fresh colours.


Published by Gotha: Justus Perthes


Johann Georg Justus Perthes (1749 - 1816), was a German publisher and founder of the firm 'Justus Perthes Geographische Anstalt Gotha' in Gotha.

Old China: Shanghai 1901. Postcard as Sh $54.00

 

Chinese Opium Smokers: Vintage Postcard $42.00

 

Chinese Vintage Advertising from 1920ies $35.00

 

Larger Antique Map North and Central Asi $48.00

China: Vintage postcard with German Forces in China stamps: 4. (Berittene ) Company ( 4th Cavalry Company ).


Japanese postcard (Whole View of Yenoshima) used as mail Tianjin to Crimmitschau in Germany, sent via Siberia.


Attached is an overprinted 2 cents Germania stamp for use in China. Tientsin Deutsche Post – cancellation.


Clean and fresh, neat writing, very fine condition.  Vintage postcard from Hong Kong: "Travelling in Sedan Chair". Published by Sternberg in Hongkong.


The postcard depicts 2 western men as they are carried by 4 Chinese in a sedan chair  Vintage postcard " Chinese girls in holiday attire, Chinatown".


The postcard has been sent San Francisco to Lower Austria in 1906. Fine condition.  Vintage map from 1900 with Jiao-zhou Bay ( Kiautschou ) and detailed Qingdao map ( Ta-pau-tau German lager, railway station…..).


Scale: 1:50,000. Size: 6,2 x 9,5 inches. Very fine condition. Published by Meyers in 1900.

China: Boxer Rebellion Period Postcard. $50.00

 

Travelling in Sedan Chair. Old China Pos $28.00

 

Chinatown: Cute old Postcard with 2 swee $12.00

 

Old China: Jiaozhou Map with Qingdao Bea $22.00

Western girl who just has been administered the sacrament of confirmation. The girl wears a beautiful white dress – almost looking like a wedding gown.


The photo postcard comes from the Rembrandt Photo Co. Shanghai. Minor wear.  Decorative old postcard after a painting from 1893 ( signed: Peking 1893 ). Published by R. & J. D.


The painting depicts street life with sellers, a rider, children…in a narrow lane in Beijing.


Unused, fine condition ( minor stain at back side ).  Decorative old postcard depicting a group of Chinese Opera actors in their colorful costumes. The "actresses" in fact were male too.


Unused postcard in fine condition.


Item ID: col-2643  Authentic vintage photo ( no reprint ) from Guangdong ( Canton ) form the Republic China period. The photo depicts a female peasant selling potatoes in the streets.


Size: 6,8 x 9 inches


Small pin holes at the corners otherwise fine condition.

Confirmation in old China. Photo from Sh $18.00

 

Old China: Vintage Postcard with Street $22.00

 

Chinese Actors: Vintage Postcard from Ho $25.00

 

Old Chinese Photo: Peasant selling Potat $20.00

Peoples Republic of China 1965 – 1974: 5 different cereal vouchers in denomination 0.1, 0.5, 1, 3, 5 pounds. During the Cultural Revolution Period in China people could only buy cereals like rice, when they produced such coupons. 


Even in restaurants rice was only served for vouchers.


Authentic items, different grading.  Joseph Stalin Portrait: Strange piece from the time of the Cultural Revolution in China.


Embroidery ( silk ) from one of the most famous weaving mills in China, Hangzhou.


Size: 3,5 x 5 inches plus margins. The embroidery has been fixed in a frame so there are bends and some stains along the margin ( can be fixed by ironing it ).


Fine condition, quite scarce.


Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, Ioseb Besarionis Dze Jughashvili; Russian: Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, (1878 –1953), better known by his adopted name, Joseph Stalin (alternatively transliterated Josef Stalin), was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Stalin's increasingly gained control of the Party from 1928 onwards and finally became the de facto party leader and the dictator of his country, in full control of the Soviet Union and its people. His crash programs of industrialization and collectivization in the 1930s and his campaigns of political repression cost the lives of millions of people. However it helped industrialize the Soviet Union making a Great power by 1931. By 1937 the Soviet Union had become the second largest industrial nation in the world.


Under Stalin's leadership, the Soviet Union played the decisive role in the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War (1939-45) more commonly know as The Great Patriotic War in Russia and post-Soviet republics and went on to achieve the status of superpower, expanding its territory to a size similar to that of the former Russian Empire excluding most of Finland, Poland and Alaska.  Old Chinese vintage Postcard from 1901: " Their Sunday Best". The postcard depicts 2 girls in traditional Costumes.


Unused, fine condition.  Black and white postcard from the 1930 - 40s depicting a funeral procession marching through the Streets of Shanghai. Mint postcard in fine condition. 


Undivided back. Very sharp photo with many details.

China, Cultural Revolution. 5 different $18.00

 

Joseph Stalin: Chinese Embroidery from $65.00

 

Old China, vintage Postcard with 2 Girl $15.00

 

Old China: Funeral Procession Shanghai. $26.00

b/w vintage postcard with image of a Pailou ( Gate of Honor ) in Beijing. 


German Post in China – Peking 1907 - cancellation.


Sent to Mr. Knorr, a German Oboist who served in the German 4th Company of the 3rd Sea Battalion in Qingdao.


Scarce „ Stab der Gesandtschafts Schutzwache Briefstempel „ strikes at flap side. ( Staff of the Embassy Security Unit Postage Stamp )

Slight tear at lower side, darker part at the lower part of the back side.

 Chinese vintage postcard from the time of the Boxer Rebellion.


It shows a part of the Imperial Palace and view at the so called Coal Hill.


It was sent Peking to Palermo in Italy.


Stamp missing ( oval shape cancellation, 1901 July 22.

 Antique map of Canton in South China and the region along the Pearl-River. It covers the area from Canton at the upper part down to Macao and the southern islands.


At the upper right is a small map of Canton.


Printed in Leipzig / Germany in 1902.


Size: 6.5 x 9 inches.


3 small tears at the left margin otherwise clean and fresh.

 Ca. 1880: Etching depicting the Imperial Summer Palace in Peking. Participants of the procession at the Summer Palace hold fish symbols in the air – the symbol for prosperity. At the rear we see the Marble Boat.


Etching by J. Pappel.


Size: 11.4 x 7.8 is the complete sheet, 6.2 x 3.8 the actual image.


Minor wear of the margins, fine condition. Looks great when matted and framed.

Old China, Peking 1907. Vintage Postcard $55.00

 

Old China: Coal Hill in Peking, 1901. Bo $26.00

 

Old China: Canton and Canton-River. Anti $20.00

 

The Imperial Summer Palace: Etching from $42.00

Chinese funeral "  The funeral catafalque ". Postcard depicting a Chinese funeral procession in Qingdao ( Tsingdao ). 


Chas. F. Gammon Photo Series No. 236, printed in Japan for use in China.


The front side is fine, at the back sticks an old rubber band. Could be removed.

 Ca. 1910: “ Polis Station of China “. b/w postcard printed in Japan.


View of the Police Station in Antung. 6 men in front of the police station, 2 large flags above the entrance.


Unused, fine condition.

 Ca. 1915: Vintage postcard printed in Japan.: Coolie Quarters, Jyji-Ko Dairen. 


Great image with the buildings like a prison camp and a few coolies.


Unused, fine condition

 Fine color postcard depicting Central Asian horse’n cart. A Muslim sitting on horseback and a Chinese sitting on the cart.


Unused postcard with a Tashkent cancellation at back. 


Inscription in Russian and German.

Fine condition.

Chinese Funeral. Postcard, Qingdao. Ca. $25.00

 

Police Station of China: Old b / w Postcar $26.00

 

Old China / Japan: Vintage Postcard of C $24.00

 

Vintage Postcard 1919: Means of Transpo $24.00




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