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The chap is Dr Sun Yat-Sen who was the first President of the Republic of China.
The stamps are the 1938 issue overprinted. The picture is not clear enough to properly identify them. There seem to be dozens of different overprints to search.
The $1 was probably Scott # 344 or 347 or 359. It will have a new number as an overprint.
Hope this gives you a starting point.
Kim
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Thanks for trying, Kim, but these are definitely not the 1938 issue. The colors don't match, the design at the sides is different, and the printing is much cruder. Here's a larger picture.
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Found it. These are Chinese Communist local issues from 1945 in the northeast China area. Not much value.
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Where did you take your information ??? in 1945 the Manchuco (Northeast Province) was under the Japenese ocupation. The first stamps under Chinese communist for Northeast province was in 1946... according to Scott...
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My first impression when I glanced at these stamp images was that they were forgeries due to the poor printing quality.
Is the subject of the stamps not Sun Yat Sen?
And, wasn't the Communist cause anathema to his politics?
I believe the National Emblem at the top of the stamp, "Blue Sky, White Sun" is a wholly Nationalist (not Communist) symbol. From Wikipedia:
"The flag of the Republic of China was adopted in 1928 and is also known as "Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth". It was first used as the flag of Sun Yat-sen's government-in-exile in Tokyo."
So, if this was in fact a Communist stamp (which I doubt), it's using the political symbolism of the opposition. At the very least, I would have expected the Communists to obliterate the Nationalist symbolism with the overprints...
-Paul
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10:37:47am
Near the end of WW II the situation in China was chaos.
Regular printers were engaged by the Nationalist Government
printing currency and inflation rivaled Germany's 1921-23
hyperinflation. Stamps were printed ,
especially in North China using what paper was available
including news paper rolls, and a soft paper that affected
the way stamps looked. As the Japanese surrendered and withdrew,
Communist forces under Mao moved in and looted everything .
The Communist forces frequently used unsold stamp stock
from post offices when they took control of a town,
village or province. I suspect that they also
seized printing shops with plates and used them with
the various overprints.
The image of Sun Yat Sen has nothing to do with the forces
behind the issue, as that was what was available.
Another cnsideration might be that some clever devils f
igured out how to reproduce stamp images also,
for a profit, of course.
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Thanks CJ,
I find your comments extremely interesting, and I am in full agreement. Postal service under adversity is immensely interesting to me, and you've laid out what seem to be some very plausible scenarios.
It's almost incredible that Communist leadership would set aside ideological differences to allow Sun Yat Sen's unobliterated image to adorn communications of their subjects.
And so, GPU covers documenting this would be, to me, invaluable!
Smoke 'em if you got 'em!
-Paul
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SG lists these under (Communist) North China: Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Area
According to SG, the top line of the overprints on the first and third stamps and of the bottom line on the second stamp means "temporary use".
The other lines mean "Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei".
Left to right the stamps are SG NC14, NC11 & NC13 issued 5th October 1945.
The basic stamps were an unissued stock from Changchun overprinted in Zhangjiakou, I guess very much as cdj1122 has described.
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re: China--can't find in Scott
The chap is Dr Sun Yat-Sen who was the first President of the Republic of China.
The stamps are the 1938 issue overprinted. The picture is not clear enough to properly identify them. There seem to be dozens of different overprints to search.
The $1 was probably Scott # 344 or 347 or 359. It will have a new number as an overprint.
Hope this gives you a starting point.
Kim
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03:36:07pm
re: China--can't find in Scott
Thanks for trying, Kim, but these are definitely not the 1938 issue. The colors don't match, the design at the sides is different, and the printing is much cruder. Here's a larger picture.
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re: China--can't find in Scott
Found it. These are Chinese Communist local issues from 1945 in the northeast China area. Not much value.
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re: China--can't find in Scott
Where did you take your information ??? in 1945 the Manchuco (Northeast Province) was under the Japenese ocupation. The first stamps under Chinese communist for Northeast province was in 1946... according to Scott...
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05:31:16am
re: China--can't find in Scott
My first impression when I glanced at these stamp images was that they were forgeries due to the poor printing quality.
Is the subject of the stamps not Sun Yat Sen?
And, wasn't the Communist cause anathema to his politics?
I believe the National Emblem at the top of the stamp, "Blue Sky, White Sun" is a wholly Nationalist (not Communist) symbol. From Wikipedia:
"The flag of the Republic of China was adopted in 1928 and is also known as "Blue Sky, White Sun, and a Wholly Red Earth". It was first used as the flag of Sun Yat-sen's government-in-exile in Tokyo."
So, if this was in fact a Communist stamp (which I doubt), it's using the political symbolism of the opposition. At the very least, I would have expected the Communists to obliterate the Nationalist symbolism with the overprints...
-Paul
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
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10:37:47am
re: China--can't find in Scott
Near the end of WW II the situation in China was chaos.
Regular printers were engaged by the Nationalist Government
printing currency and inflation rivaled Germany's 1921-23
hyperinflation. Stamps were printed ,
especially in North China using what paper was available
including news paper rolls, and a soft paper that affected
the way stamps looked. As the Japanese surrendered and withdrew,
Communist forces under Mao moved in and looted everything .
The Communist forces frequently used unsold stamp stock
from post offices when they took control of a town,
village or province. I suspect that they also
seized printing shops with plates and used them with
the various overprints.
The image of Sun Yat Sen has nothing to do with the forces
behind the issue, as that was what was available.
Another cnsideration might be that some clever devils f
igured out how to reproduce stamp images also,
for a profit, of course.
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re: China--can't find in Scott
Thanks CJ,
I find your comments extremely interesting, and I am in full agreement. Postal service under adversity is immensely interesting to me, and you've laid out what seem to be some very plausible scenarios.
It's almost incredible that Communist leadership would set aside ideological differences to allow Sun Yat Sen's unobliterated image to adorn communications of their subjects.
And so, GPU covers documenting this would be, to me, invaluable!
Smoke 'em if you got 'em!
-Paul
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re: China--can't find in Scott
SG lists these under (Communist) North China: Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Area
According to SG, the top line of the overprints on the first and third stamps and of the bottom line on the second stamp means "temporary use".
The other lines mean "Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei".
Left to right the stamps are SG NC14, NC11 & NC13 issued 5th October 1945.
The basic stamps were an unissued stock from Changchun overprinted in Zhangjiakou, I guess very much as cdj1122 has described.
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