T69 1981-1982 Dream of Red Mansions, Twelve Beauties Chinese Stamps(Part 3)

Posted by slang on December 31, 2008

This is a T69, souvenir or miniature sheet(140 x78mm)Perf. “Baoyu”.

Besides this miniature sheet, a set of 12 stamps value and description as follows:

• 4f(1) Daiyu
• 4f(2) Baochai
• 8f(3) Yuanchun
• 8f(4) Yingchun
• 8f(5) Tanchun
• 8f(6) Xichun
• 8f(7) Xiangyun
• 10f(8) Liwan
• 20f(9) Xifeng
• 30f(10) Sister Qiao
• 40f(11) Keqing
• 80f(12) Miaoyu

The first day cover with the 12 stamps has a quantity issued of 2.5m whilst the first day cover with the miniature sheet has only 0.7 million quantity issued.

These stamps have two issues:

1. 1 st issue No.1,3,5,7,9,11 on 20 November 1981
2. 2nd issue No.2,4,6,8, 10,12 on 24 April 1982

Check out other articles:

Part 1 : T54: Lotus Miniature Sheet

Part 2 :J42 1979, 2 Yuan Miniature Sheet: Red Jewellery Camellias