Description: This vintage definitive postage stamp from the Republic of China features a monochromatic steel-blue intaglio design printed on a textured, warm off-white paper stock. The central portrait highlights a highly detailed, engraved bust of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of modern China, gazing forward. Spanning across the upper horizontal border is a clean inscription panel housing traditional Chinese characters that read from right to left as "Postal Administration of the Republic of China" (中華民國郵政). The lower boundary is dominated by a substantial face value displaying the western digits "1000" on the left, accented with two smaller underlined zeros to indicate cents, which balances with the traditional script on the right reading "One Thousand Yuan" (壹仟圓 with a multiplier designation). The entire composition is surrounded by standard rectangular framing lines, bounded by rough, uneven comb perforations, and remains in an uncancelled, pristine mint condition.
Circa: Late 1948 to mid-1949
Condition: Unused - Hinged
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