Styling itself as "the only online invoice museum in China" and hosted on the Hebei Taxpayers website, The Invoice Museum ????? is a digital catalogue of part of a private collection of over 2000invoices. The collection belongs to Mr GAO Xianzhou ??? who works in tax in Hebei province.

Gao started collecting invoices in 2000, and his collection includes pieces from the Qing dynasty and Republican period. In the screenshot above, the note at top-left is dated 1722 (Kangxi 61). Ashis collection grew, and he developed expertise, Gao wrote Chats about Old Invoices «?????», published by the China Tax Publishing House in May 2007. He is currently writing a new book - AHundred Years of Invoices in China «??????» - about the evolution and development of invoices in more recent times.

To visit THE INVOICE MUSEUM, see:
http://www.hbnsr.cn/web/invoiceList.aspx

To read the complete article, see:
THE INVOICE MUSEUM (https://chinesemoneymatters.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/the-invoice-museum/)