Identity Crisis

Hello..need help on these..am thinking Peoples Republic of China..but no luck locating them in the Scotts catalog..can someone help ? ZhangCheng perhaps ?? thanks, phil

Phil, it's not PRC, but China. However, I cannot make out the characters to ID the province/region/usage, even after enlarging the scan. Can you provide a high resolution scan of just one stamp. Thanks!

KHJ sure I will reduce size of scan to business card..i will also check China...

The problem is the original resolution of the scan, not the size.

They are revenues (not in Scott) and my China specialty catalogs are out on long-term to loan to another collector. I only got 2 hours of sleep, so the province/usage eludes me at the moment.

I'll let you know when my memory returns (if I remember).

Yes, maybe Zhang will know.

OK, I'm really slow this morning...

I should let you know, they are postal savings stamps. You have the full set of 6. If you run across imperfs, I believe those would be proofs.

However, without a catalog, I don't remember date of issue or province (it may have been a national issue, I don't remember).

Sorry philp,this are completely not a people republic of china stamps but republic of china under SUN YAT SENG till CHANG KA SEK by that time pre-1949 before chairman mao form the people republic of china in 1949.This stamps have a little value and not interested by many stamps collectors becouse this are not PRC stamps.

I am one of the few then !
Are they for sale Mr Bruno ???

Londonbus1.....Doesn't collect China

The interest a collector might have in that set has little to do with whether they were issued by ROC or PRC.

Also, interest in a particular stamp is not always based on retail value.

The stamp below has a Scott catalog value of 35c, and can usually be bought for a few pennies. However, I consider it the most valuable stamp in my collection, because it was the first mint stamp my Mom gave me when I first started collecting (and, it's ORANGE!!).


The real value of stamp collecting is the enjoyment and the memories.

Thanks, Mom!!
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KHJ,I have this stamp too.Unfortunely,I treat it as one of the lowest value stamp in my chinese stamp collection.Roc stamp would fetch SKY-HIGH value if taiwan unite back with china,do you think is possible?

Why on earth would Taiwan want to unite back with China ??
Or are you only talking about philatelic re-unification?

That's actually a very good and thought-provoking question. Because I deal with a lot of internationals, I am neutral on this and all other related issues.

However, I think it is worth pointing out that in many cases it is politics and ideology that divides people, not the people themselves. That is neither a condemnation nor a commendation of politics/ideology; simply an observation.

Sorry for taking this thread slightly off-topic (thread title, ironically, was "identity crisis"). I just thought it was an interesting question.

Taiwan will rejoin China only if their ideologies change.
Meaning if China becomes democracy with free open multi-party elections or
Taiwan turns to an autocratic social-capitalists, know as Chinese Communism.

Hello Phil,

Khj is right,


And issued in 1943 by Central Trust of China.

The market price is about CNY 20.00/set.

I will post more information about China postal saving stamps in the next days.

Hope to help you .

Best Regards,
ZhangCheng

This is the big pic,but they are not come from my hand.

Thank you everyone...Mr Bus I will e mail you..i think I can spare them...phil

China issued postal savings stamps,mainly concentrated in the period of Chunghwa Post,total 18 sets,including 2 sets of overprint and 3 sets of special print by postal administration,13 sets(65 kinds of type)of overprint by local post.

China postal savings business started in July 1,1919,at the same time,a set of 2 stamps to be issued.The use of the 5 FEN and 1 JIAO of"Beijing sailing stamps"(issued in 1914-1919),to overprint the Chinese character of "only for saving".Because to operate the postal savings business in many cities,in order to distinguish each other,most be overprinted the local name by the local post.

By September 1942 (Other records showed 10 October) officially issued one Chinese postal savings stamp,it is 1 YUAN of face value, green,design of sun yat-sen(Sun Zhongshan).And also issued 1 set of 4,design of Linsen in the same year,face value was 5 JIAO,1 YUAN,2 YUAN,5 Yuan.in 1943 And also issued 1 set of 6,face value was 5 JIAO,1 YUAN,2 YUAN,5 YUAN,10 YUAN,20 YUAN.The three sets of special stamps printed "½Ú½¨´¢½ð or½ÚÔ¼½¨¹ú´¢½ðÓÊƱ,mean¡°the saving stamp of save to build our country".

In addition to the above overprint and special print by postal dministration,from 1942,many local post have overprinted their own savings stamps, according to available records show:5 kinds of type of Anhui Province,3 kinds of type of Zhejiang Province,3 kinds of type of Sichuan Province,5 kinds of type of Fujian Province,8 kinds of type of Hunan Province, 6 kinds of type of Hubei Province,10 kinds of type of Gansu Province,5 kinds of type of Jiangxi Province,6 kinds of type of Guangxi Province,3 kinds of type of Guangdong Province,2 kinds of type of Guizhou Province,9 kinds of type of Xinjiang Province,total 65 kinds of type by 13 local post.

All postal savings stamps in June 1945,stop selling.

The effects of above it is me through consult and preview a lots of data by many real Chinese experts,thanks for their research results.And sorry for my broken English to translate these.