Container Inventory

Folder 1: 1915 Junk Issue (First Peking Printing) - Nine small die proofs, colors as issued (½¢ brown, 1¢ ochre, 3¢ blue green, 4¢ scarlet, 5¢ lilac, 6¢ gray, 7¢ violet, 8¢ brown orange, and 10¢ deep blue)

Folder 2: 1923 Junk Issue - Four large die proofs – Signed (initialed) by D.M. in green crayon and dated (½¢ black brown, 1¢ orange, 1½¢ purple, and 1½¢ purple - the 1 ½¢ die proofs have different dates and different die numbers.)

Folder 3: 1923 Junk Issue – Five large die proofs – Signed die proofs (initialed) by D.M. in green crayon and dated (5¢ rose mauve, 6¢ gray, 7¢ violet, 8¢ orange, and 10¢ blue)

Folder 4: 1923 Reaper Issue- Five die proofs, colors as issued (13¢ brown, 15¢ deep blue, 16¢ olive green, 30¢ deep purple, and 50¢ green) signed (initialed) by D.M. in green crayon and dated

Folder 5: 1915 Hall of Classics Dollar Issue (First Peking Printing) - Nine small die proofs, colors as issued ($1 ochre brown, $1 ochre brown, $2 blue, $5 scarlet, $5 scarlet, $10 green, $1 ochre brown frame, and two different color (purple and slate) vignettes)

Folder 6: 1915 Reaper Issue (First Peking Printing) - Five small die proofs - trial color (15¢ olive green, 15¢ brown, 20¢ brown lake, 50¢ purple, and 50¢ dark green) and horizontal composite pair die proof of the 1923 Reaping Issue (30¢ and 50¢ green) on one piece

Folder 7: 1915 Junk Issue (First Peking Printing) – Vertical composite pair die proof of the 1915 Junk Issue (2¢ and 4¢ yellow green) on one piece. Three small die proofs of the 1923 Junk issue (2¢ yellow green, 4¢ scarlet, and 4¢ dark gray green)

Folder 8: Six small die proofs (1¢ orange, 3¢ blue green 3¢ orange (no sky behind the Temple), 3¢ yellow green, 4¢ scarlet, and 10¢ deep blue) of the 1923 Constitution Commemorative Issue depicting the Temple of Heaven in colors as issued and a 10¢ rejected essay showing an airplane in flight over the Temple of Heaven

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Folder 8 – Rejected essay

Folder 9: 1915 Postage Due Stamps – small blue die proofs (½¢, 1¢, 2¢, 4¢, 5¢, 10¢, 20¢, and 30¢)

Folder 10: Two complete sets of 12 soft, thin paper cut-down die proofs in issued colors of the 1912 Sun Yat-sen stamps (National Revolution Commemorative Issue) on the right and Yuan Shih-kai stamps (Founding of the Republic Commemorative Issue) on the left

Folder 11: 1912 Yuan Shih-kai (National Revolution Commemorative Issue) – 1¢ blue and 5¢ blue trial color on card

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Folder 12 - Essay

Folder 12: 1921 – 25th Anniversary of the Postal Service Commemorative Issue - 5¢ hand painted essay with photos, three values in a windowed card (1¢ orange, 8¢ blue green, 10¢ deep blue), and three small windowed cards with 3¢, 3¢, 10¢ - one 3¢ and the 10¢ have hand drawn pencil perforations

Folder 13: 1921 Peking Printing of the Airmail Issue – Five small die proofs, collors as issued (15¢ blue green and black, 30¢ scarlet and black, 45¢ violet and black, 60¢ blue and black and 90¢ olive green and black) and three small trial color proofs of 15¢ (scarlet and black, orange and black, dark blue and black)

Folder 14: 1921 Peking Printing of the Airmail Issue – Two hand drawn essays of 15¢, one is an engraver’s model of a rejected design showing a head-on view of the biplane and signed Wm. A. Grant and the other is a pen and ink drawing of the engraver’s model for the accepted design, one proof of vignette in black

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Folder 14 – Vignette

Folder 15: 1924 Revenues – Twelve revenues in small die proofs initialed and dated in pencil and ink. Six in single color (1¢ green, 2¢ orange, 5¢ lake, 10¢ blue, 20¢ lake and 50¢ green) and six in bicolor ($1 light brown & dark brown, $2 blue & lake, $5 scarlet & black, $10 light green & lake, $20 purple & black and $50 black & lake)

Folder 16: 1924 Revenues – Hand painted essays of the 2¢ blue & white (this is the engraver’s model with values expressed in Chinese and English and initialed W.A.G) and $5 red & white (engraver’s model for approved design and initialed W.A.G but not issued)

Folder 17: 1928 General Chang Tso-lin (Commander-in-Chief Assumption Office Commemorative) – Ten small trial color proofs - four in issued colors (1¢ orange, 4¢ olive green, 10¢ dark blue, and $1 scarlet) and six of the 4¢ in trial colors (orange, green, brown orange, dark blue, scarlet, and lake)

Folder 18: 1928 General Chang Tso-lin (Commander-in-Chief Assumption Office Commemorative) – Engraver’s model of the frame and inscription for the 4¢ stamp - a pen and ink drawing signed, Wm. A. Grant and also bears the signature of Chang Tso-lin in Chinese characters. There is also a small photograph from which the vignette portrait was engraved.

Folder 19: 1912 General Internal Revenue stamps – Three large size die proofs (50¢ brown, $1 green, and $5 red)

Folder 20: 1912 General Internal Revenue stamps – Three large size die proofs ($10 purple, $50 blue, and $100 yellow brown)

Folder 21: 1915 General Internal Revenue stamps – Three smaller die proofs on card (1/10¢ olive green signed and dated , ½¢ scarlet, ½¢ blue) and five larger die proofs (1¢ blue green, 2¢ purple, 10¢ scarlet, 50¢ blue green, and $1 blue)

Folder 22: 1912 General Internal Revenue stamps – First Design of the 2¢ green essay showing the Temple of Heaven instead of the Watch Tower, 10¢ signed Wm. A. Grant and dated, and the approved design showing the Watch Tower and the Great Wall of China in blue green trial color

Folder 23: Photo of Temple of Heaven on card

Folder 24: 1915 Three different Gate of Heaven essays with drawn-in perforations. They were approved by Yuan Shih-kai but never placed in service because the new Empire collapsed before they could be issued (5¢ scarlet and 5¢ blue shows the Cheng Yang Gate, 10¢ shows the Tien An Men Gate, and 50¢ green and 50¢ blue shows the Tai Ho Palace)

Folder 25: 1921 - 25th Anniversary of the Postal Service Commemorative Issue – Engraver’s model labeled “1st Model for 1921 Issue”, hand drawn essay of [President Hsu Shih Chang] in bluish green ink of the 3¢, and engraver’s model labeled “2nd Model for 1921 Issue”, hand drawn essay of [President Hsu Shih-chang] in bluish green ink of the 3¢, and one hand drawn frame

Folder 26: Design of the proposed commemorative issue of 1912 includes a set of thirteen Map of China essays on card with superimposed inscription in Chinese and English “The Republic of China.” Small die proofs, imperforate and not issued (1¢ orange, 2¢ yellow green, 3¢ blue green, 5¢ lilac, 8¢ brown, 10¢ blue, 16¢ gray, 20¢ lake, 50¢ green, $1 scarlet, $2 light brown, $5 gray, and $10 purple)

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Folder 27 - Essay

Folder 27: In December 1915, President Yuan Shih-kai tried to overthrow the Republic and planned to establish himself as Emperor. He ordered the Chinese Bureau of Engraving and Printing to prepare stamps with the inscription “Commemorating the Establishment of the Chinese Empire.” There is an engraver’s model – a portrait of Yuan Shih-kai and a pagoda, 3¢ black inscribed “In Commemoration of the Chinese Constitutional Monarchy.” Two small die proofs with a new portrait of Yuan Shih-kai replacing the ones on the Revolution and Republic Commemoratives, 3¢ blue (Founding of the Republic) and 5¢ blue (National Revolution), small die proof of vignette in blue

Folder 28: Photo of Yuan Shi-kai – source photo

Folder 29: Three burnt examples of the plate impression of the proposed Map of China stamp recovered from the fire (3¢ blue green perforated, 3¢ blue green from an imperforate sheet, and 20¢ lake perforated), an engraver’s model for a 4¢ Junk stamp in red with the vignette of the junk in a circular frame with the inscription “The Republic of China”, and proof in green of Sun Yat Sen – could be for stamp or money

Folder 30: 1912 Board of Law Fee Stamps – Eight small die proofs of the mythological animal part unicorn and part bear (1¢ aqua, 5¢ green, 10¢ purple, 20¢ brown, 50¢ orange brown, $1 light blue, $5 orange, and $10 scarlet)

Folder 31: On one large card with seven types of Folder 30 Board of Law Fee Stamp essays, five types of Folder 21 General Internal Revenue Stamp essays and four types of Folder 19 & 20 Revenue Stamp essays

Folder 32: Proof impressions of the special wooden chop used at Peking on July 1, 1921 to cancel mail on the first Peking – Tsinan – Shanghai flight (applied on the 15¢ blue green and black, 30¢ scarlet & black, 45¢ violet & black, 60¢ blue & black and 90¢ olive green & black (Scott C1 – C5))

Folder 33: Fifteen essays titled “Ordinary Stamps Not Issued” of stamp designs used for stamps issued in 1920, including five “Dove in Flight” stamps, two “Carp” stamps, two “Flying Goose” stamps, two Postage Due stamps, two Junk stamps, and two Reaper stamps

Folder 34: 1¢ ochre “Angel Wings” essay for the First Issue of the Republic