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Lot 10602 Qing four times postage film test printing sample set of 3 pieces, including a single piece of test printing sample green, orange each, double piece test printing sample orange one, postage below the factory name: waterlow & son limited, very rare, is the collection of Qing Dynasty postal supplies indispensable treasures. Lin Guangguang, a famous collector of postal supplies, collected the old collection. Estimate: RMB 1,200,000-1,800,000
First, the source flowThe original owner of this set of samples was the late Mr. Wu Hongxuan (1921-2016), a veteran philatelist in Beijing, who graduated from Fu Jen University in Beijing, and was a senior engineer, a former member of the Xinguang Stamp Club and a member of the Tianjin Stamp Club. He was the vice president of the second council and the director of the academic committee of the Shanxi Philatelic Association, the vice president of the fourth council of the Beijing Xuanwu District Philatelic Association. He participated in the compilation of "The Complete Collection of Chinese Stamps: Postage Cover Volume" (1992, edited by Beijing Yanshan Publishing House and "History of Chinese Stamps", Volume II, Qing Dynasty National Postal Period, published by the Commercial Press, 2004). He is the author of "New China Ordinary Stamps Illustrated Book", published by the People's Posts and Telecommunications Publishing House in 1996, and won the third prize of the 2004 National Philatelic Book Exhibition.
Lin Guangguang knew Mr. Wu around 1998, through his fourth daughter-in-law's brother Mr. Cao, introduced, he remembered that Mr. Wu's family lived in the community of Chunshuyuan, Xuanwu District, about the west street of Liulichang walked straight to it, the living space was quite narrow, the room was full of all kinds of old books and periodicals, Mr. Wu was still quite tough, in addition to his ears, his eyesight was acceptable, Mr. Wu asked when he first met, he always wanted to have a new film of the three double films of the Qing Dynasty, but he had no chance to buy it, I don't know how much it wasMr. Lin told him that there are many companies auctioning philatelic products in Beijing, which can be bought at any time, and the price is not expensive, and it is possible that he goes out less often, and the news is blockedWhen Mr. Lin saw these three pieces for the first time, he was really eye-opening and surprised, and Mr. Lin asked where these three pieces came fromMr. Wu said that he found them in a pile of old envelopes in a waste paper factory run by Yang Yongfu and Yang Qiming and his son in Beijing White Paper Workshop, and it is estimated that he should have bought these three pieces in about 1945-1949 before the founding of the People's Republic of China after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War14 "Early Postal Merchants in Beijing" records that the "White Paper Workshop" in Beijing was named after the fact that there was a paper-making workshop in this area. In order to manufacture paper, paper mills often have to purchase large quantities of waste paper as raw materials. The used books, newspapers and envelopes purchased by the waste paper shop are very lowAs a result, the Baijifang area has become a good place to collect old envelopes and stamps, and is therefore known as the "land of stamps". The white paper shop is located at the south entrance of Niujie, and the "stamp family" Wei and Yang are next to each other, so some stamps of the sample stamps, trial printing stamps, etc. are often "near the water and the first to get the month", with Cheng Ji and East Asia two postal agencies passing the hands mostly. Mr. Wu has always lived in Xicheng (formerly Xuanwu District) in Beijing, not far from the white paper workshop, and in his spare time he went to the white paper workshop to look for the actual package in the waste paper pile, but according to the memories of Wu's son, these three pieces were bought between 1977 and 1982, during which he traveled back and forth between Taiyuan, Shanxi Province and Beijing, and participated in philatelic activities such as postal associations, stamp exhibitions, and seminars in the two places. In fact, as early as 2000, Mr. Wu participated in the compilation of the "History of Chinese Stamps" Volume 2 p316 Mention of these three tablets, and the book says: ....According to the master mold printing samples and postcard samples printed with the factory inscription that have been discovered in recent years, it can be seen that the fourth piece of the Qing Dynasty was also printed by Huadelu Company.
2. Comparison with the official release of the original film(1) The comparison of monolithic tablets is as follows: According to the "Chinese Postage Fuzhi Postcards (1897-1949)" (2011, published by the Postal and Literary Association), the layout of the monolithic pieces of the four secondary films of the Qing Dynasty can be divided into two types: A and B.
The layout of the two test printing samples is the same, but the printing color is different, and the four differences between the layout characteristics of A and B are as follows
1.The postage symbol is in line with the French header;(Same as Type A) 2.The French header is 67mm long;(Same as Type A) 3The Chinese header is 59mm long;(The difference is large) 4Footnote length 44mm;(also the same as Type A).
Other differences are as follows:5The size of the Beaulieu postage symbol is the same, but the factory inscription is printed at the bottom: Waterlow & Sons Limited, which is different from the official release. Comparison of enlarged drawings of postage symbols, which are letterpress sub-die prints. 6.The first "T" line is 42mm long, which is longer than the 31mm of the official release. The second stroke, 57mm, is almost identical.
At present, there are four kinds of postage Fu Zhi master mold test samples, all of which are gravure master mold printing Daqing State Post, you can compare, these are now in the World Stamp Exhibition has won the big gold medal or gold medal in the stamp collection.
2) The comparison of the two pieces is as follows: the front and back sides of the double film are the removal and return of the official release of the double film, and the front and back of the double film are almost the same as the printing method of the single film, but the left footnote "If the reply letter must be written in the secondary film" is the same as the official release of the double film, and the back film is printed in the upper right corner of the footnote with the word "reply", which is the same as the meaning of the word "reply" only added to the second double film and the third double film of the Qing Dynasty. The French header on the reverse side is completely different, the difference is quite large, the Chinese header is the same, the return film is completely different, and the reverse side still uses a single-piece printing method "Daqing postal postcard" plus "reply", the reverse side of the official release picture is "Daqing postal postcard return", regardless of the positive and negative sides are very different, I will not repeat it here, you can see it at a glance as long as you compare each other, in short, According to the surviving Qing Dynasty four-time postage symbol printing samples, these are precisely engraved gravure master molds, and then converted into letterpress sub-molds for printing, and finally embedded in the T-shaped line and text header of the printing plate printing, so there will be a phenomenon of uneven height and spacing between the postage symbol and the text header, so the Qing Dynasty four pieces are printed at one time, and the letterpress process (typographed) is printed. For details, please refer to "Postcards with Postage in China (1897-1949)". That is to say, the front and back are all printed by the letterpress sub-mold, and the front and back are the same. 」