nigelc
17 Apr 2017
08:19:38am | re: Double overprint identification please
Hi,
That's quite a confusion of characters!
The black surcharge was applied by the Japanese puppet government.
The green surcharge was then applied by the Republic of China in September 1945.
It's SG 775 / Scott #616.
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cdj1122
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18 Apr 2017
02:50:38am | re: Double overprint identification please
There are many stamps from the '30s and early '40s that had an overprint from one faction. Then a few months later as the tide of war changed an overprint changing the value or area of legal usage a second overprint was added. Usually the printig authorities managed to find enough space to not overlap so completely.
While many collectors seem to skip over the "Sun Yat Sen" and the "Martyrs" series stamps, they are a very interesting set to work on. The history of WW II does not start in December 1941 at Pearl Harbor but years earlier in China, Manchukuo, Eretria. and Finland, and these stamps played their part.
The "Junk with locomotive in the background" was issued in three fairly easy to sort sets, but quite often collectors just mix them ogether and move on..
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