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![[postal ensign]](../images/c/cn~post1.gif)
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image by Jaume Ollé 04 December 2009 and Miles Li, 11 April 2014
The five-striped design shows that this was probably a pre-1928 flag.
Miles Li, 18 May 2002
The flag is shown on a photo of a junk in
Atlas of Flags in China by Huang Mingyan (China Peace Publishing
House, Beijing 2003, ISBN 7-80154-833-7)
Miles Li, 20 May 2007
The white flag charged with national flag in canton and letter of post and a
wild goose.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 04 December 2009
It was the Postal Ensign (1919-1929). Proportions 5:8.
Miles Li, 11 April 2014
![[postal ensign]](../images/c/cn~post2.gif)
image by Jaume Ollé 04 December 2009 and Miles Li, 10 April 2014
The white flag charged with white sun on blue sky and letter of post and a
wild goose in fly.
Nozomi Kariyasu, 04 December 2009
The goose on the flag is a reference to the Chinese idiom 'travel a thousand
miles to deliver a goose's feather - the object is light but the thought is
deep'.
Miles Li, 10 April 2014
![[postal ensign]](../images/c/cn_postes.gif)
image by Miles Li, 18 May 2014
Source: Flaggenbuch 1939
![[Postal Pennant]](../images/c/cn~postes.gif)
image by Miles Li, 18 May 2014
Source: Flaggenbuch 1939
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