I'm Guessing ? China

I'm fairly certain it doesn't belong in India... but is it Chinese? or? Help please.


Thanks, B

Definitely China!

Can you help out a little more with detail? I can't read it; have not any Gibbons to cover it and am shooting in the dark. Is it at least right side up?

It looks right side up, but possibly reversed. Can you check?

I'll look through my Gibbons later when I get time. However, nearly all stamps listed in Gibbons have something written in Roman script, so I can only identify this if they give an image.

Thanks? reversed? no, this is the only way it could be the front.

OK, I can't see anything that looks like that in my Gibbons. Are you sure it's postage stamp? It doesn't look like one to me. I think we'll have to wait until someone who knows Chinese can decode the text for us.

OK, I can't see anything that looks like that in my Gibbons. Are you sure it's postage stamp? It doesn't look like one to me. I think we'll have to wait until someone who knows Chinese can decode the text for us.

It's right way around, and it isn't a postage or any other sort of stamp. It's a printed seal, apparently of a person.

At this point it gets tricky. Reading it in the natural way, from top right to bottom left, it would be Seal of Heng Yichu. This is possible, but less likely than Chu Heng-yi, which requires a rather eccentric reading. (The last character means 'seal' in either case.)

We are fortunate to have Tony Mac
sort out these tricky Asian script questions.
Well done.

I'll put it in glassine and take it to a co-worker who reads it - see what they say.

Tonymacg is right.
It is only a printed seal of a shop. Top-left is family name(Chu), top-right and buttom-right are first name(Heng Yi), buttom-left means 'Mark/Sign/Seal' (ji). Chu-Heng-Yi-Ji

Thanks so much.

the script is not of any indian language, it is chinese. I guess so

warm wishes.

I printed off both the "stamp" and your translations. Took both to work; got a completely different answer from my co-workers who are native Chinese.
one translation out of sigh? I'd discount, but 3/over two? well we'll post their translations in a day or two. Yet, tony and everyone else know more about "stamps" than I'll ever learn... so, I'll post, you'll comment and we'll decide.? I'm not judging.

Barb, without seeing the solutions of your colleagues, if they're that different, I'm betting they've given you literal translations of the words. Quite OK, but I'll bet that the first three characters make a one-character surname and a two-character given name. Try putting that suggestion to them, and see how they react.