Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Lionel (capetown)
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On that left stamp, the writing across the bottom is in Chinese characters. Without using a dictionary, the first 4 characters from left to right say "Greater Korea(n) People's/Democratic Country/Republic", so that sounds like North Korea to me. Also, the next to last character (one in from the right) is, if I'm recalling correctly, the character often used on revenue stamps.
The odd thing is that North Korea dropped the use of Chinese characters fairly early on -- earlier than South Korea did. So I'm not quite sure how that squares with everything else.
-- Dave
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here is an old mention about the purple stamp from another board
http://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=26517
Dave, you posted back then!!!!
Mike in NC / meostamps
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The stamp on the left is South Korean. The 2 leftmost characters at the bottom of the stamp is translated as "Korea". The next 2 characters, individually translated would be people+country, but together would be translated as "Republic". For "People's Republic", the character pair man+people preceded by the country name would be used instead.
It is indeed a revenue stamp: KSSC #RP-54(1962). Your 2w stamp is similar to the older currency series of 1955, but your stamp is definitely the 1962 series. Also note the 1963 cancel on the stamp, indicating new currency usage.
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10:44:05am
They are from one of the Asian countries; I looked under North Korea and couldn't find either of them
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Lionel (capetown)
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re: please help to i.d. these two stamps (North and South Korea Revenues)
On that left stamp, the writing across the bottom is in Chinese characters. Without using a dictionary, the first 4 characters from left to right say "Greater Korea(n) People's/Democratic Country/Republic", so that sounds like North Korea to me. Also, the next to last character (one in from the right) is, if I'm recalling correctly, the character often used on revenue stamps.
The odd thing is that North Korea dropped the use of Chinese characters fairly early on -- earlier than South Korea did. So I'm not quite sure how that squares with everything else.
-- Dave
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re: please help to i.d. these two stamps (North and South Korea Revenues)
here is an old mention about the purple stamp from another board
http://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=26517
Dave, you posted back then!!!!
Mike in NC / meostamps
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re: please help to i.d. these two stamps (North and South Korea Revenues)
The stamp on the left is South Korean. The 2 leftmost characters at the bottom of the stamp is translated as "Korea". The next 2 characters, individually translated would be people+country, but together would be translated as "Republic". For "People's Republic", the character pair man+people preceded by the country name would be used instead.
It is indeed a revenue stamp: KSSC #RP-54(1962). Your 2w stamp is similar to the older currency series of 1955, but your stamp is definitely the 1962 series. Also note the 1963 cancel on the stamp, indicating new currency usage.
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