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attention. Right? Anyway. Got these Japanese stamps and cut postcards & cut envelopes.
My eyesight's not that good. giving me a headache trying to figure them out. Ah! so, help me out here. Used to know Japanese for "thank you" but forgot (old timer's disease, I guess). So here's the pics:
I would tell a harmless Japanese joke but the last time I told it The PC police
said I was being a bigot. Needless to say I don't go to that site anymore.
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I'm no expert at all, but I've picked up a little of bit of info here and there, and would be happy to try to help.
First off, the 2 stamps on the upper row on the far right are revenue stamps, so you don't have to struggle to find those either in the catalog or in your album any more!
The other two stamps are very likely forgeries, but, if legitimate, they would be Scott 2 and Scott 6, left to right. However, there were so many forgeries made of the early issues that the odds -- I've heard from experts somewhere between hundreds to thousands of forgeries for every single legitimate copy -- are in no one's favor.
Some of the forgeries are "signed", meaning that they actually have the Japanese characters for "forgery" (or "specimen", or "reference") embedded and often hidden in the design. These I can usually detect. But many were not "signed", and I'm still in school about figuring those out. If you could provide much larger scans of those two stamps, I'll give it a try.
As for the others, they are cut squares. Sometimes the cancels are legitimate and sometimes not. Both they and the revenues and the early regular issues were often mounted onto display sheets and sold to tourists throughout Tokyo and at the port in Yokohama, which is why they are prolific and, unfortunately, have heavily contaminated collecting of early Japan (esp. Scott 1-54A, although there are lots of forgeries of the later definitive series, too).
Let me know what else you're interested in knowing, and I'll try to answer, to the extent that I may know.
Do please feel free to show those scans of the purported Scott 2 and 6. I'd be interested in seeing if I can figure it out.
-- Dave
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I heard Ohio in Japanese means hello. is that true? not the subject but it got your
attention. Right? Anyway. Got these Japanese stamps and cut postcards & cut envelopes.
My eyesight's not that good. giving me a headache trying to figure them out. Ah! so, help me out here. Used to know Japanese for "thank you" but forgot (old timer's disease, I guess). So here's the pics:
I would tell a harmless Japanese joke but the last time I told it The PC police
said I was being a bigot. Needless to say I don't go to that site anymore.
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re: Japan- Ohio?
I'm no expert at all, but I've picked up a little of bit of info here and there, and would be happy to try to help.
First off, the 2 stamps on the upper row on the far right are revenue stamps, so you don't have to struggle to find those either in the catalog or in your album any more!
The other two stamps are very likely forgeries, but, if legitimate, they would be Scott 2 and Scott 6, left to right. However, there were so many forgeries made of the early issues that the odds -- I've heard from experts somewhere between hundreds to thousands of forgeries for every single legitimate copy -- are in no one's favor.
Some of the forgeries are "signed", meaning that they actually have the Japanese characters for "forgery" (or "specimen", or "reference") embedded and often hidden in the design. These I can usually detect. But many were not "signed", and I'm still in school about figuring those out. If you could provide much larger scans of those two stamps, I'll give it a try.
As for the others, they are cut squares. Sometimes the cancels are legitimate and sometimes not. Both they and the revenues and the early regular issues were often mounted onto display sheets and sold to tourists throughout Tokyo and at the port in Yokohama, which is why they are prolific and, unfortunately, have heavily contaminated collecting of early Japan (esp. Scott 1-54A, although there are lots of forgeries of the later definitive series, too).
Let me know what else you're interested in knowing, and I'll try to answer, to the extent that I may know.
Do please feel free to show those scans of the purported Scott 2 and 6. I'd be interested in seeing if I can figure it out.
-- Dave
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