Need Help With Chinese Stamps, Please.

Hi everybody ,

Can anyone tell me what are these stamps end where I can find them in the Scott catalogue.

Thanks a lot .

Hello Vega:

I'm sorry, but I know nothing of Chinese stamps. But SCF is a great place, full of friendly and knowledgeable folks. Someone will have an answer for you soon.

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KirkS

They look like the 1938 Sun Yatsen issue, although these shouldn't be cut like that. Could then be the non-perf war issue (1943-44) but I can't find a non-perf $5.00 stamp. Someone with a better idea of Chinese stamps can surely help you better than I can.

Welcome to Stamp Community Forum, Vega!

The pic is too small for me to type it, but if it is unwatermarked type III, then it is probably the known printer's waste for that issue -- characterized by the fact that they are IMPERFORATE. Scott's editorial policy is that they do not assign catalog numbers for "printer's waste".

Still, a nice stamp to have in your collection. And, it's ORANGE!

k

If you look in the Scott catalog, there is a footnote after China #363 that mentions the printer's waste.

Thanks all for your answers. I get the footnote after China #363 :)
It seems to be the correct reference for this stamp.

There is no information about the center error of the second stamp. I don't know if this error often happened or if it's something rare. Is there another catalog that could help me concerning errors subject ? or what is your opinion about that ?

Thanks again for your answer, in particular khj ... yes it's ORANGE lol

Cheers

Printer's waste are stamps that were rejected by the printer because of production problems. You will note that in both stamps, the portrait is poorly centered in the oval. The printer pulled these sheets and didn't bother perforating them. When the printer doesn't catch the error, completes production, and it makes it through to the post office and gets sold over the counter, then it is accepted by EFO collectors as a "legitimate error". I know, it sounds strange, because a production error is a production error. However, many catalogs, such as Scott, refuse to assign catalog numbers to printer's waste. There are even cases in which Scott originally assigned a catalog number, and then removed the catalog number after the error was deemed printer's waste -- in other words, it was determined that the error stamps were not obtained through purchase through the post office, but by "some other" means. There is an ethics issue involved, which is why so many major EFO dealers/collectors refuse to openly buy/sell printer's waste, although they might own some.

As far as I'm concerned, your stamp is certainly a keeper, even if not accepted/priced by the editors of the catalog. It's a great conversation piece, and, it's ORANGE!

For the Gibbons tribe:

Ma's Illustrated Catalogue of the Stamps of China, indicates tha this is Ma 1005. The shift is not noted but it is noted that this stamp was not offically issued without the surcharge.

Hello, vega, and welcome. SCF is a great place for stamps and info. Someone here always knows the answer to a question.

Mike, I can not ID this imperforate stamp, and can not find out its information in the Ma's 2010 Chinese language edition. The prototype/normal of this imperforate stamp looks like Ma's #437(Scott #361), what about your opinion?

vega,

Below it is an auction ended at half hour ago:
http://www.zhaoonline.com/detail/au...detail.shtml

I have done further reading, Ma's has no indication of a fully imperforate stamp mentioned of this design or variation of this design.

Mike, thanks for the clarification.

Hi :)

Another mystery fore me

What is this cover ? it isn't mentionned in the scott...
I try to find information on the net but nobody knows what this cover is.
However it seems to be a commemorative cover because the cover looks like the stamps who are "proclamation of the commune" .....

Someone has an idea about that ?
Khj ? it's not orange but .....

It's a First Day Cover for the 90th Anniversary of the Paris Commune set, of 18 March 1961, postmarked at Beijing.

What is the difficulty about it?