I have read a couple of posts and replies, sufficient to realize that my stamp is a Chinese Revenue from a 1913 series. I also learned that there were a huge number of overprints. Is anyone capable of deciphering this overprint and would anyone know a catalog number that I could assign to the stamp? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Welcome. I can't help with reading the overprint, but these are not listed in Scott. Scott doesn't list foreign revenues, generally speaking, except that they do list some (not all) that were valid for postage at one time or another in their lives.
I assume this overprint didn't make your stamp valid for postage (but I'm only guessing).
Thank you for the help Tony. I don't mind struggling to identify, but I knopw when I am out of my element, and although I think the older Chinese stamps are fascinating, they sure are tough to pin down sometimes. Thanks again and happy hunting. I will see now if someone can put any catalog number to it.
I don't have any catalogues that exhaustively list Chinese revenues. There are a few of them out there, for various eras and incarnations of republics and empires. Three that come to mind are Bendig (2 volumes), Paau and Wing Commander Padgett's (though his is for later issues of Communist China).
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