The Stamps of China are soaked in history — from the celebration of Communism to commemorating leaders like Mao Zedong. In any country with two opposing factions and an ever-changing landscape, there’s bound to be a lot of printing errors and recalls, which makes many rare China stamps worth a considerable amount of money. While it was a slow hobby to take shape, there are now over 18 million stamp collectors in China and some very fascinating stamps to obtain.

One reason some China stamps became so valuable related to inflation. Face values suddenly rose in 1945 and stocks of stamps dating as far back as 1931 were surcharged, making some newer designs like the Sun Yat-sen stamp worth up to $5,000. By 1947, a Sun Yat-sen was valued at $50,000!

In November 1952, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication released a set of four stamps to commemorate “the 35th Anniversary of the October Revolution.” The October Revolution (also known as The Bolshevik Revolution) was led by Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik party and the workers’ Soviets and eventually overthrew the government, making way for the USSR. They were issued in celebration of the friendship between China and the Soviets.

The first stamp had a picture of China’s Mao Zedong with Stalin on the Kremlin tower; the second one portrayed Lenin making a speech at the Second Representatives Conference of the Soviet Unions; the third one pictured a statue of Stalin standing at the Lenin Canal; the fourth showed Lenin making a speech. In 1997, a set of these stamps was sold at the Spring Auction of Jiade for $55,000 RMB.

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