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Forerunners Mukden Opium Destroy Certificates
Regional Issues
Manchukuo Manchukuo Marriage Registration Tax
Harbin & Mukden Municipal Revenues
Kwantung
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Many of the early Great Manchukuo
overprints on Wheat and Mukden revenues were locally produced by tax
officials hoping to impress the new regime. In some instances the
overprints were unauthorised leading to a wide variation. It is thought that these stamps were prepared for use in March 1932 only used for a very short time between March and October when the First Manchukuo General Revenue issue was released. |
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Late 1931. The above shows the first revenue issued for the Japanese influenced breakaway region of Manchuria prior to the declaration of Manchukuo. These Kirin Wheat issue revenue stamps have a 4 character, violet, provisional overprint. These are thought to have been produced in Kirin. The violet central hand-stamp reads; 大滿州國 Great Manchuria (Manchukuo), sizes of chop vary. The first and second stamps above have two black characters, these are local control overprints reading 濱江 Pinchiang (Harbin). |
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1931. This is the second
provisional issue and consists of a black typeset printed overprint
reading
大滿州國
Great Manchuria. Known values 1c
Turquoise and 2c Orange/Yellow. The cross shaped cancel is a fairly common way of making sure stamps were not reused. |
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1932. The above examples show a 12 character provisional typeset overprint on a Wheat issue revenue stamp. The left hand overprint reads; 花壹分用 "Spend as 1 fen", the central line reads; 暫作新印 "Temporary use as new stamp" and the right hand characters read 大滿州國 Great Manchukuo. |
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1932. The above examples show a 12 character provisional typeset overprint on a Wheat issue revenue stamp. The black central overprint reads; 大滿州國 Great Manchukuo, the red overprint (left) 花壹分用 "Spend as 1 fen", and the red overprint (right) 暫作新印 "Temporary use as new stamp". It is clear that the red and black overprints were added separately and positions vary. |
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