Description: This vintage definitive postage stamp from the Republic of China features a monochromatic bister-brown intaglio design printed on a textured, light cream paper stock. The central artwork highlights a highly detailed, engraved bust portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the highly celebrated founding father of modern China, looking forward. Spanning across the upper horizontal border is an elegant 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 "500" on the left, accented with two smaller underlined zeros to indicate cents, which balances with the traditional script on the right reading "Five Hundred Yuan" (伍佰圓). The entire composition is surrounded by standard rectangular framing lines, bounded by clean comb perforations, and remains in an uncancelled, mint condition.
Circa: 1948-1959
Condition: Unused - Hinged
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