I have a real uniform of Chinese People's Liberation Army
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My Japanese friend in Hong Kong sent it for me and it's indeed a real one.
Very solid and warm.
Even in a cold winter day, I can go out without putting another coat.
In the photo, I'm having a red stamp album of China in my hand and smoking Chinese cigarette "Quang Rong Bei"
Why could he offer me a "real" uniform?
The inside story is, his wife was born in a house of plutocrat and obtained a real one for me.

The name of the friend who sent me this uniform is Kenji Kikuchi.
He is a Japanese dealer, living in Hong Kong, of the stamps of China, Hong Kong and Macau.
You can see his website at
http://www.philatelic.com.hk/
Japanese only(^_^;

He sometimes comes back to Japan and always brings me some rare philatelic materials. Click to enlarge.
They are the meter-stamps of Hong Kong sold in vending machines for a short period when the postal fee was raised. Every vending machine has different numbers.
They only cost 10Yen each but still a rare item.


As I always want the stamps in pairs, and he fully understands collectors' feelings.
Just like this.

Pairs from 10*10 sheets.



A pane.



I want to distinguish between stamps from normal sheets and stamps from miniature sheets or panes.

I never knew that there was a variety in the ATM of Macau till he showed me the existence of the ones printed bold fonts. It is not listed in Automatemarken-Spezial-Katalog 2000 of Michel yet. I'm waiting for a new edition,


Nagler ATM of Macau is missing. Can anybody help me?


His wife is a beauty. I met her 3 times
He also sent me another Chinese costume but the buttonhole were not in good condition and she sewed it for me.
I received the P-stamps with his wife's photo of Hong Kong.
As I collect Tabletennis on stamps, I ordered him J86m miniature sheet which costs 70,000Yen but he discounted for me. I am waiting to receive this sheet.
He says he'll bring it in the next time he comes back to Japan.


Am I spending too much money for stamps?
I've never counted the numbers of the stamps I possess, but there will be more than 10,000 pieces in my collection as I was collecting stamps since I was a primary schoolboy. I just counted the approx. number of German stamps and there were more than 1,000

This is the room where my collections are kept.


I use a small dry case for early China and stamps of Germany which have strong gums.

I was lazy last year and did not make an entry to an exhibition...
Even I have bought all the materials of North Korea issued up to now, I haven't made album leaves for them.
I should not waste time writing a blog but it's a good diversion of mind.