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Manchurian Local Overprints 1945 - 1947 |
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Japanese | Kerr 122. |
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Ryōyō | Liao Yang | Liaoyang | Liáoyáng | |||||
遼 陽 |
The oldest city in Manchuria dating back to Shang and Yin dynasties 1770-1122bc. | Liao nan | ||||||
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Lien nan | |||||||
Map of 1945 | Liaoyang | |||||||
1Y on 2f | 3Y on 2f | |||||||
Misplaced 1Y Surcharge | 5Y on 10f | Misplaced 5Y Surcharge | ||||||
This is a hard black surcharge often with mis-placed values. The top four characters read 中華民國 Chinese Republic, below these is the surcharge.
In Chiu's Supplement Vol 8. Chapter 2
Page 315 of August 1959. He says this overprint was machine printed
on sheets of 100 stamps in Chin Chou by the Sen Yau Printing Press.
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These stamps have been identified by using Volume II of the Stamp Catalogue of China by Shui-Hon Chan and the four booklet guide The Local Overprinted Stamps of Manchuria 1945-7 by Allen D Kerr (published 1978 and now out of print). Both works are essential for anyone delving seriously into this subject. | ||||||||
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