China Revisited

Hi to all
As well as purchasing the Chinese Cultural Heritage book(see Thread under that title) I also noticed in the glass case at the thrift shop a plastic bag full of envelopes. I could see stamps hanging out of them. So I purchased that as well, so now I have another 1000 or stamps to sort. However just quickly these were some of the Chinese stamps that were in the lot. They are all used, but I think the beetles may be Korean? Now on the reprints of the flag stamps the leaves at the bottom are grey-brown and not red brown as these issues. Gibbons lists colours of $100 violet, $400 orange brown, $800 green, $1000 olive and $2000 light blue.
Can any one tell me what year these ones are, as said before the reprints have the leaves grey-brown but these are definately red-brown.
Regards.
Horamkhet.

All the stamps, except the first one, appear to be CTOs.

Scott catalog numbers, with dates so you can look it up in other catalogs.

Row 1
S1: China(ROC) 1271(1960) or similar; genuine postally used; this stamp also came in granite paper variety; granite paper variety also has 2 design types -- 7 lines in "0" of "40" and also 8 lines

Row 2
S1-S3: North Korea 465-467(24Jul1963)
S4: China(PRC) 255(1955)

Row 3
China(PRC -- Northeast Liberation Area) 1L157, 1L157, 1L158, 1L160(1Oct1950)
***based on your picture, all 4 look like reprints; the red-brown should be much "redder", but hard to tell on a monitor; in addition, the paper is nearly fault-free and they appear to be CTOs; there is a better test than the color; from a post by ZhangCheng:


For stamps that have suffered discoloration (as in your stamps), I would say this is a much better way. But again, they appear to be CTOs and so are very likely reprints.

Row 4
China(PRC) 716,720,717(15Oct1963)

Nice stamps!

k

Hi Khj

Thank you for the information it is a great help.
Regards
Horamakhet