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I refer to Scott Catalog for the following:
I checked these and as near as I can tell they do not have the zig-zag watermark (WM 141), but rather they seem to have the Curved Wavy Lines Watermark (WM 257). The thing that puzzles me is the postmark.
One is clearly 1931 and thew other is 1904 (I assume the year goes last which is clear from the 1931 postmark). Of course I realize that this makes no sense since in either case the issue date was 1937. Can anyone help clear this up?
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Adam
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On Japanese postmarks, the year date is based on the year reign of the emperor, not the year AD.
You can google the information to convert from the year reign to year AD.
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Then this means of course the first number in the sequence is the year.
So 12.8.31 must mean December 8 1937.
Thanks for the help!
Adam
(I got this from: http://www.sljfaq.org/cgi/date.cgi?year=1937)
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Here's an ugly table, not sure if it will format correctly:
Japanese/Eng...Began...Add
å¹³æˆ/Heisei.......1989....1988
æ˜å’Œ/ShÅwa......1926....1925
大æ£/TaishÅ......1912....1911
明治/Meiji.........1868....1867
(EDIT: thanks for the suggestion of changing the tabs to dots, cdj1122)
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Actually, 12.8.31 is 31Aug1937. On Japanese postmarks, the numerical convention is YY.MM.DD
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Oops, you're right! Thanks!
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11:10:20pm
Unless the cancel is in English, in which case the Western date format is used dd.mm.yy
Here is a 1911 postcard that shows both types of cancels:
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Roy is correct, I should have been more specific that I was referring to the Japanese language postmarks shown by Adam.
Thanks for pointing that out and providing the example, Roy!
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I refer to Scott Catalog for the following:
I checked these and as near as I can tell they do not have the zig-zag watermark (WM 141), but rather they seem to have the Curved Wavy Lines Watermark (WM 257). The thing that puzzles me is the postmark.
One is clearly 1931 and thew other is 1904 (I assume the year goes last which is clear from the 1931 postmark). Of course I realize that this makes no sense since in either case the issue date was 1937. Can anyone help clear this up?
Puzzled,
Adam
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re: Japanese 1937 Issue
On Japanese postmarks, the year date is based on the year reign of the emperor, not the year AD.
You can google the information to convert from the year reign to year AD.
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re: Japanese 1937 Issue
Then this means of course the first number in the sequence is the year.
So 12.8.31 must mean December 8 1937.
Thanks for the help!
Adam
(I got this from: http://www.sljfaq.org/cgi/date.cgi?year=1937)
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re: Japanese 1937 Issue
Here's an ugly table, not sure if it will format correctly:
Japanese/Eng...Began...Add
å¹³æˆ/Heisei.......1989....1988
æ˜å’Œ/ShÅwa......1926....1925
大æ£/TaishÅ......1912....1911
明治/Meiji.........1868....1867
(EDIT: thanks for the suggestion of changing the tabs to dots, cdj1122)
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re: Japanese 1937 Issue
Actually, 12.8.31 is 31Aug1937. On Japanese postmarks, the numerical convention is YY.MM.DD
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re: Japanese 1937 Issue
Unless the cancel is in English, in which case the Western date format is used dd.mm.yy
Here is a 1911 postcard that shows both types of cancels:
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re: Japanese 1937 Issue
Roy is correct, I should have been more specific that I was referring to the Japanese language postmarks shown by Adam.
Thanks for pointing that out and providing the example, Roy!
k
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