Mint set in Collectors' album: $135

Twelve Beauties of Jinling from "A Dream of Red Mansion" Stamps
"A Dream of Red Mansion" by Cao Xueeqin (? - 1763), the greatest Chinese novelist of the 18th century, is a literary masterpiece that ranks high in both ideological and artistic value. In the order of the stamps, the phonecards are: 1. Baoyu and Daiyu reading; 2. Daiyu burying flowers; 3. Baochai chasing butterfly; 4. Yuanchun visits her parents; 5. yingchun rreciting Buddhist sutras; 6. Tanchun helps from a poetry society; 7. Xichun drawing picture; 8. Xiangyun picking necklace; 9. Liwan lecturing her son; 10. Xifeng hatches a plot; 11. Sister Qiao escapes; 12. Keeping leisure; 13. Miaoyu serving tea. All the 13 cards hava Rmb.10 face values. 10,000 packs issued.

Lotus Stamps
The set of stamps and souvenir sheet were issued in 1980 and reproduced as five-card set phonecards. All the cards have Rmb.10 values.

Mint set: $50

Goldfish Stamps
The crucian carp is the remote ancestor of the goldfish. There are records of the breeding of a gold-colored variety of this carp in Jiaxing Zhejiang province back in the Sung Dynasty (960 - 1279). After some 900 years of home breeding and artificial selection, the crucian carp has evolved into many varieties of the goldfish we see today. All RMB10 value. See ITC magazine issue 13 p.52 "Chinese Stamps on Phonecards"

Mint set in Collectors' Album: $120