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Large One Cent

Position 7 missing dot “period” pair (position 6,7)

Position 7 missing dot “period” block of 4 (position 7, 8, 12, 13)

Position 4 missing dot “period”

Position 9 missing dot “period” mint block of 4 with margin (position 9, 10, 14, 15)

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Two Cents

Large 2 cent used with “郵” and “2” missing ink NEW！

Small 2 cents used, very light Chinese characters in the middle

Small 2 cents used block of 4 (position 13, 14, 3, 4 inter-setting block)

Usually the post offices split the sheet of 100 into horizontal block of 20

Upper left stamp position missing dot "period", Shanghai dollar cancel Mar. 3 1897

Small 2 cents used inverted S and no dot (position 15), Shanghai custom cancel

Small 2 cents position 15 inverted S and no dot from complete block of 20

Small 2 cents used with some part of the overprint "cents" missing . Overprint shifted up

Small 2 cents mint with one stroke in “Fen” missing, base design shifted up cutting off the top boarder

Complete story of large 2 cents position 13 and 18

Large 2 cents used dollar cancel missing dot on "Yang" (closer look...)

Mint large 2 cents broken character "2"