Postage stamps of China, the Anna-Lisa and Sven-Eric Beckeman collection.
Subtitle: the 1885 small dragons, 1894 Dowager Empress 60th birthday, 1897 new currency surcharges, 1897 red revenues, customs mail matter handstamps : sale 1, 2, 3, 4, Hong Kong, 1998 and 1999.
Contributors: Beckeman, Sven-Eric.; Corinphila (Firm)
Publisher: Sotheby's and Corinphila in association
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Hong Kong
Language: eng
Subjects: Dragons on postage stamps -- Catalogs.; Postage stamps -- China -- Catalogs.
Genres: Catalogs.
Other titles: Anna-Lisa and Sven-Eric Beckeman collection, 1885-1897
Notes: Portions of text in Chinese.
"Part 2 of the Beckeman collection, compris[es] the issues from 1885 to 1897... To commemorate the first series of sales, Sotheby's and Corinphila published a casebound handbook catalogue which reproduced all the Beckeman exhibition pages as a series of 143 colour plates..., descriptions for all three sales appear[ing] together chronologically.  Prior to each auction, an auction supplement to the handbook-catalogue [similar to accompanying volume] will be published relating to the sale taking place on 14 May 1998 or one of the three following sales, later in 1998 and 1999"-- Introd. to the catalogue.
"This catalogue may be referred to as 'Mandarin' 4"--Suppl. 1.
Table of contents: title: sale 1. Hong Kong, Thursday, May 14, 1998 at 10:00 am at Sotheby's Hong Kong.