Dates On Stamps

Hi Will.....

A CDC without info is called a mute cancel.

Dates on stamps? Here is my favourite date (wishful thinking)

I'll join in the game of Heidi-seek BeeSee

Perfs? What perfs?

Pulled perfs of course!

and one for Jubilee's Oxymoron list.

Heidi with a "monster minisheet".

There is a small complication to this, though. The Showa Emperor (Hirohito) died during 1989, so regnal year dates for 1989 up until his death, show Showa 64. After his death and the ascension of Emperor Heisei, they show Heisei 1. I don't think it appears on Japanese CDSs, but another way of indicating 'First year of Heisei' or 1989, is #24179;#25104;#20803;#24180;.

(Note that to convert to English dates, you count from 1925 for Showa and 1988 for Heisei, although they ascended in 1926 and 1989 respectively, because the Japanese count inclusively.)

I had sneakily phrased my reply to avoid having to explain that complication!

You did a much better job than I would have done in explaining it.

k

khj, in my day job I'm a Japanese translator, so that little complication about 1989 crops up occasionally. I've yet to come up against the same thing for Meiji/Taisho or Taisho/Showa years, though. Thank goodness.