China Stamp: 8f Year of the Monkey single, China, 1980

February 7, 2014

National Postal Museum

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The famous Chinese artist Huang Yongyu painted this monkey for China’s first Lunar New Year stamp. The stamp proved so popular as a good luck gift that many forgeries exist

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