Malaysia Nilai Murni Virtues Stamps Issued 13th Day Of June, 2011, Withdrawn 17th Day Of June, 2011.

***On the 13th day of June, 2011, recently, a new set of Malaysian stamps was issued with the Nilai Murni/Virtues theme.
And on the 17th day of July, 2011, that means that very same week, the very same set of stamps was officially withdrawn by the Malaysian postal authority.
Apparently, the "Indian" wordings on the stamps were in Hindi & not Tamil.
I don't really know what 'withdrawn' means but certainly, those who bought these stamps are not going to return them to the post offices, that's for sure.
And a new set of similar stamps will be issued & this time it will have the 'correct' Indian words in Tamil & not in Hindi.
Whether this so-called 'error' stamps will increase in price in the foreseeable future is left to be seen.

China 2011 Mini Sheet Stamps "Ancient Calligraphy"

***Stamps from China had a strong bull run last year and thereafter, anything similar that came from behind the Bamboo Curtain was selling at a hefty premium.
This mini-sheet commemorating some sort of Chinese Ancient Calligraphy was issued in April recently and is already selling at a premium if one cares to refer to eBay whereby it's going for around 12 Yankee Dollars.
I am not into all these Chinese stamps stuff but I was pestered into getting 10 sheets of these when I was at the flea market at Amcorp Mall this Sunday morning & now, I don't even know why I bought them just now. Perhaps, I was high on something just now.
They were offered to me at RM22/7 Yankee Dollars each. But honestly, I don't really know what to do with these.
Apparently, this mini-sheet was printed on rice paper according to the Vendor. I wonder what rice paper is? Next time, they will print these on toilet paper, perhaps?!
After having pushed shares & properties' prices thru the roof in China, it seems that the affluent & the syndicates in China had to look for other 'targets' to push & they targeted the Chinese banknotes & later, the Chinese stamps.
How long can this so-called bull run last? Will it rise & rise & rise like no tomorrow? The utopists believe the Chinese bull will never die & that it is immortal!
But believe me, when this thing is thru & when the over-inflated Chinese economy slumps & goes into recession, all these speculative runs would have run their course and all these immortal bulls will surely turn into raging bears & one then can see such total speculative runs collapse into a big dump heap & many folks would be losing their pants and perhaps, may, then, flush the hundreds of sheets of Chinese stamp in their possession with the initial intended long-term 'investment' into the crapper.
Until that costly lesson has been learnt, I guess the bulls will outrun the bears as far as Chinese stamps are concerned, at least for the time being.

China 2004 Zodiac Monkey Mini-Sheet Stamps

***This year 2004 zodiac stamp issue featuring a smiling chimpanzee seems to be a very popular issue, esp. with its rather good looking vignette of our close cousin.
This mini-sheet with 6 stamps seems rather popular due to supposedly its low print of less than 2 million sheets, & that's according to grapevine, not me, as I don't have reliable moles in the world of philately.
The ongoing market price of this stamp sheet has basically on the uptick these few months & from late last year until now, its price has climbed up around 50%, believe it or not. As such, its better to buy Chinese stamps than to get burnt at the stock-market, I suppose.
Some local small-time stamp dealers or shall I call them small-time monkeys are, currently, trying to sell this mini-sheet & also the full sheet of 20 stamps of this issue at a ridiculously exorbitant price of RM360/US$110 per sheet.
You can actually see this particular monkey hawking his ware at a local flea-market every Sunday....

China 2011 Year Of The Rabbit Stamps

***This was the widely anticipated zodiac Year Of The Rabbit stamps recently issued by China to usher in the Year Of The Rabbit as per the Chinese zodiac calendar.
Its price when sold per sheet has already multiplied many folds and if what Chinese grapevine has been whispering is correct, it is expected that this year's rabbit issue would charter very much higher territories in years to come.

Definitely an exciting issue worth all the waiting for!

China 2004 Year Of The Monkey Stamps

***This is a full sheet of 24 pieces of stamps issued by China in 2004 commemorating the then zodiac year of the Monkey, which on the stamps looks more like the chimpanzee.
This monkey issue is already gaining notoriety by its increase in price multiple times lately, perhaps, given hope to certain collectors hoping that this issue will charter the territory chartered by the 1st series Golden Monkey!
Definitely, a modern-day day-dream!

China 2007 Year Of The Pig Sheetlet With Folder

***A sheetlet of 20 pieces of pristine Very Fine stamps from China issued just 3 years ago for the Year Of The Pig.

Each stamp carries a face value of 1.20 Yuan and its value has already shot-up mutiple times lately.

This sheetlet also comes with a Folder with a sleeve inside to hold the stamps.

Will this pig become the ever-desired golden pig which will charter unchartered territories pricewise in years to come?!

China 1981 Year Of The Rooster T58 Block Of 4 MNH

***This is a MNH block of 4 stamps from China dated 1981 featuring the cocky rooster doing its strut.