Description: This definitive postage stamp from the Republic of China features a monochromatic teal-blue intaglio design printed on a textured, light cream paper stock. The central artwork features a highly detailed, engraved bust portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the highly celebrated founding father of modern China, gazing forward. Spanning across the upper horizontal border is an elegant inscription box 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 "5000" on the left, accented with two smaller underlined zeros to indicate cents, which balances with the traditional script on the right reading "Five Thousand Yuan" (伍仟圓). The entire composition is surrounded by standard rectangular framing lines, bounded by clean comb perforations, and remains in an uncancelled, pristine mint condition.
Circa: 1948-1949
Condition: Unused - hinged
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