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00:00world stamps the whole country is red and the red revenue stamps the whole
00:15country is red is a Chinese postage stamp issued on November 24th 1968 which
00:21contained a design error the stamp featured a map of China with the words
00:25the whole country is red with a worker farmer and soldier standing below with
00:31copies of quotations from Chairman Mao the face value of the stamp is 8 fen
00:36Taiwan was not shaded red at the time of printing it was and remains so today under
00:42the control of the Republic of China instead of the PRC the official reason
00:48given for the withdrawal of the stamp was that the Spratly and Paracel Islands were
00:53missing from the map as well as the borders with Mongolia Bhutan and Myanmar
00:58being incorrectly drawn the stamp had been distributed for less than half a day
01:03when an editor at Sino Maps Press noticed the mistake and reported it to the
01:07Ministry of Industry and Information Technology as a result all Chinese post
01:12offices had to stop selling the stamps and return all copies with only a small
01:17quantity making it to private collectors the designer of the stamp Wang Wei
01:23Sheng said in an AFP interview for a long time I was really worried that I
01:28would be jailed the stamp is today regarded as rare with one being sold at an
01:33auction in 2009 for four hundred and seventy five thousand US dollars the red
01:43revenues are Qing Dynasty Chinese revenue stamps that were over printed to be used
01:48as postage stamps in 1897 their limited number fine design and the
01:53intaglio process made the stamps in this series some of the most sought after in
01:58the world there are several varieties of red revenue stamps with the small one
02:03dollar being the rarest and most valuable it has been called China's rarest
02:09regularly issued stamp in January 1896 censor Chen Pai of the Qing
02:15government position the Guangzhou Emperor to issue revenue stamps the proof
02:20was submitted to Sir Robert Harle the inspector general of customs for
02:24approval of the revenue stamps ordered from England only a portion of the three
02:30cent stamps was printed and shipped to China they were stored in the Shanghai
02:34customs department the three cent red revenue stamps were printed by Waterloo and
02:40Sons in London the red symbolizes good luck and fortune in Chinese tradition
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