I Got Another One.

Hello Tony,

I only find out the picture of the above one,this set of revenue stamp named "LiuHeTaTu",no more details,sorry.



Regards,
ZhangCheng

Tony,

The top stamp (1c brown) is a Chinese revenue, sometimes referred to as the Liu-Ho (or Liuhe) Pagoda issue.

There are 4 distinctly different printings.

1. Engraved -- set of 8 perforated
2. King-Hua printing -- set of 10 large perforation and set of 7 fine perforation
3. Da-Tung printing -- set of 10 rouletted and set of 7 perforated
4. Pai-Chen printing -- set of 5 rouletted and set of 6 perforated

In addition, 9 of these stamps have been surcharged.

The scan shown by Zhang is a mixture of stamps from the various printings and surcharges.

I cannot tell which printing your stamp is from, partly because of the Moire patterns that appeared when you scanned the stamp. You can check the stamp yourself; but it looks like you have might have the engraved printing.

k

Khj,thanks a lot for the details,they are very helpful for me!And I will let the owner know this great details immediately.

Thanks again.
ZhangCheng

ZhangCheng,

I mis-typed concerning the 3 stamps with an overprint in your scan. Since you can read Chinese, you probably already knew, they are not surcharges but Shanghai overprints.

I mentioned that 9 stamps are known with surcharges in my previous post.

I did not mention that there are many regional overprints (too many to list). So your scan shows some of those overprints, not surcharges.

k

Khj,

Thanks for the prompt.

The "ÉϺ£ÌØÇø" is mean "Shanghai special district"as metaphrase,I do not know why for overprint,I guess it was limited use only in Shanghai...

Thanks again for everything you have done.

ZhangCheng

I cannot say for certain on this particular revenue. It may have been done simply for accounting purposes.
[EDIT: OK, I wasn't satisfied with my guess, so I did some additional research. The results are shown in a later posting in this thread.]

However, for Chinese POSTAGE STAMPS, many (not all) of the regional/district overprints on stamps of the regional inflationary period were done so to prevent people from taking advantage of localized currency depreciation and profiting off the purchase/transport/sale of postage stamps among different regions. Of course, once the inflation began affecting the entire country, these types of transactions were no longer a problem.

Note that this is different from the Kansas-Nebraska overprints on certain US stamps discussed in another thread. Those overprints were made to combat actual theft of stamps and subsequent resale in another state.

Thanks Khj for your wonderful analysis.

OK, I did some research on this particular overprint on this revenue stamp.

They were overprinted during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. I would assume that you could only use the ones overprinted, that way the Japanese controlled government was assured of getting the generated revenue.

A total of 6 of those revenues were overprinted in this manner for this purpose. Zhang Cheng, it appears that your friend has 3 of them.

k

Many thanks Khj,you provide a very valuable information of this revenue stamp.

To record the history of the country is one of the important role of stamps,the tortuous modern history of China(1840-1949) produced a lot of overprint and surcharge stamps,to learn to understand their produce process,my mood always is not calm.

Thanks again Khj for your information,I really appreciate your help.