Mao posters - where to buy in Hong Kong?
Jan 19th, 2004, 12:01 AM
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Mao posters - where to buy in Hong Kong?
I want to buy 60s and 70s posters of Mao, either colour ones or the black/red/white ones. Where might I find such memorabilia at a good price. FYI, a framed black/red/white poster, about 3 feet by 1.5 feet, framed, is about $380 in the UK (or at least in one shop it is).
Any help gratefully received.
Any help gratefully received.
Jan 19th, 2004, 06:12 AM
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You may be able to find posters in shops and stalls on Hong Kong Island along Hollywood Road and Upper Lascar Road (also known as Cat Street). You may also find Mao memorabilia in the Staunton Street/SOHO area uphill from Hollywood Road, and in the Peel Street area a few streets up. It is doubtful that anythingyou find in other than expensive antique shops will be real; as Mao memorabilia has become quite popular and genuine articles are sold a quite high prices at places like Sotheby's.
You might also try antique map dealers, which sometime have prints of posters or the occasional real poster. A reputable dealer in maps and prints is Altfield Gallery in the Princes Building in Central. Charlotte Horstmann & Gerald Godfrey Ltd. also has a good reputation. They have a shop on Hollywood road and on the Kowloon side in the Ocean Terminal shopping center.
You might try Shanghai Tang in Pedder Street which has lots of interesting items from clothing to gifts (e.g. wrist watches with the chairman waving). Any poster here would definitely be a reproduction, but would not be expensive.
Most prints and posters you see will be unframed. Framing is a relative bargain in Hong Kong, assuming you can bring it home safely or ship it (which might be expensive and may cancel the savings you get from having a poster framed in Hong Kong). There are several good frame shops along Queen's Road East in Wanchai (just past Pacific Place while walking away from Central).
You might also try looking on-line.
You might also try antique map dealers, which sometime have prints of posters or the occasional real poster. A reputable dealer in maps and prints is Altfield Gallery in the Princes Building in Central. Charlotte Horstmann & Gerald Godfrey Ltd. also has a good reputation. They have a shop on Hollywood road and on the Kowloon side in the Ocean Terminal shopping center.
You might try Shanghai Tang in Pedder Street which has lots of interesting items from clothing to gifts (e.g. wrist watches with the chairman waving). Any poster here would definitely be a reproduction, but would not be expensive.
Most prints and posters you see will be unframed. Framing is a relative bargain in Hong Kong, assuming you can bring it home safely or ship it (which might be expensive and may cancel the savings you get from having a poster framed in Hong Kong). There are several good frame shops along Queen's Road East in Wanchai (just past Pacific Place while walking away from Central).
You might also try looking on-line.
Jan 19th, 2004, 07:59 AM
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The Sun Chau Book and Antique Co., at no. 32. Stanley Street has them, along with much else from the same period.
How much is real and how much fake is open to question, although an acquaintance of mine who knows something of these things thinks Sun Chau's stock is mostly real.
Peter N-H
http://members.axion.net/~pnh/China.html
How much is real and how much fake is open to question, although an acquaintance of mine who knows something of these things thinks Sun Chau's stock is mostly real.
Peter N-H
http://members.axion.net/~pnh/China.html
