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14 Jan 2018
06:03:52pm | re: Help identifying this asian stamp...
To build a bit on the identification, "Manchukuo", which this is issued under, is *Japanese-occupied* Manchuria, which was from 1932 to 1945. At other times, the area was part of China. Manchukuo refers only to the Japanese-occupied period, when Japan issued stamps for the country. (Note that Manchukuo wasn't recognized by the UPU, so the stamps were only good for mail within Manchukuo and to Japan. Mail to other countries needed to have Japanese postage paid as well.)
In stamp catalogs and albums, it's mostly likely that it'll be referred to as Manchukuo. That orchid "logo" is distinctive to that period. (Not all Manchukuo stamps have it, but nearly all do.)
Additionally, one of the reasons I brought this up is because there's a slew of Chinese stamps overprinted locally in Manchuria after Japan's surrender in 1945, called Manchurian Local Overprints, which is a specialty unto itself.
For all these reasons, it's best to call this stamp as being from Manchukuo, rather than Manchuria, although Manchuria is the term that's most familiar to us. "Manchukuo" is specific to the period of Japanese occupation.
One dedicated collector has built a very nice reference site here:
http://manchukuostamps.com/index.htm
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