First Issues - 1877 to 1880

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Falkland Islands

[19th June 1878] 1899 SG23 Sc11B	Commemorative 1933 SG127 Sc65 Centenary of British occupation Romney Marsh Ram	Airmail 2003 SG Sc-C1	Charity 1918 SG70b Sc-MR1 War tax	Post Due 1991 SG-D1 Sc-J1 King Penguin

Charity 1982 SG430 Sc-B1 Rebuilding Fund	Centenary 1978 SG351 Sc278

There are numerous watermark variants of the #1 and this is the cheapest. The size of the first Scott charity is absurd and an immediate contender in the Large diversion (curious that there should be three entries in this display). In the Argentina entry, mention was made of the use of stamps to draw attention to the territorial dispute over the Falklands: this will be explored overleaf.

China

Commemorative 1894 SG16 Sc16 60th birthday of Tsz'e Hsi, Empress Dowager	Airmail 1921 SG352 Sc-C1	Charity 1920 SG349 Sc-B1 Yellow River flood victims	Post Due 1904 SG-D137 Sc-J1

China is, as one might expect, a complex entity with admin changes, provinces, treaty ports and territorial splits. An initial selection of mainland, mainstream issues will be shown here and perhaps an entirely separate display dealing with the sub-categories (after which, this section will probably need a rewrite).

Taiwan, Centenary 1978 SG351 Sc278

China issued a set of three Large Dragons in 1878 and three smaller dragons in 1885: all are expensive and so are represented by a 1978 Taiwanese stamp that commemorates the first issues in a rather small way and a 1988 miniature sheet on the reverse of the first page which makes a rather better job of it. (Scott refers to Taiwan as the 'Republic of China' and both Gibbons and Scott describe the mainland as the 'People’s RofC': that is part of the problem.)

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