 |
||||||
|
|
Manchurian Local Overprints 1945 - 1947 |
|||||
| Kerr 224. |
|
Other Names | ||||
| Tang Yuan | Tangyuan | Tāngyuán | ||||
|
湯 原 |
T'ang-yuan | |||||
|
|
Tangyuan (Map) | |||||
| Map of 1945 | ||||||
 |
|
 |
||||
 |
 |
 |
||||
|
This is a rubber chop, hand-stamped in soft black, this is the complete set of 6 stamps. The top four characters read 中國郵政 Chinese Post. |
||||||
 |
||||||
 |
 |
 |
||||
|
Identical to the above, hand-stamped
in soft blue, this is the complete set of 3 stamps.
The total number of stamps known for this village is 10, one surcharge is missing. |
||||||
|
|
||||||
| 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. | ||||||
