Like a rock star...The Formosan Rock Macaque (Macaca cyclopis) is a macaque endemic to the island of Taiwan and has been introduced to Japan. Besides humans, Formosan Rock Macaques are the only native primates living in Taiwan.
Republic of China (ROC) = Taiwan.
People's Republic of China = (mainland) China.
This maximum card was created specially for me, at my specific request, by my good friend S. in Taiwan. Thank you! :)
She is one of the best philatelic partners/friends that I have on 6 continents (nobody yet at a research base in Antarctica - I'm working on it :) ).
Starting with the existing stamp, she found a great image online, then she asked for permission to reproduce it. I think those images were already released into public domain, but anyway.
Then she designed and ordered custom picture postcards.
Then she went to her post office and obtained clean local postmarks on such maximum cards. As a philatelic handback, she took them right back and sent me the whole batch in an envelope. One MC from each different design.
I love her custom MCs even more than the official ones, if there are any issued! Besides, there's only 1 MC made in each exact configuration - unless she liked them so much that she created more, for herself :D .
I'm waving back at you! With my foot of course:)
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