China : 3 Items For ID

Welcome any assistance.

Rod the third one, can you tell red over black or black over red - Jeff

Hi Rod
1800 blue china 1947 SC744
$200 maroon peoples republic 1949 SC#4
$1 on $10 green sun yat sen peoples republic 1949 SC 5L43 overprint east china nanking - comes in perf 12 1/2 or 13

I can't be certain because the pic isn't big enough, but the upper right stamp looks like a reprint.

Crikey khj, you've bested me again! You're right, the ornament under the lamp is the reprint version. I bow to your expertise. In future I'll not comment on Chinese material until I hear your opinions first.
...I shall now slink back to my lair. :)

Jamesw, don't worry, this is not a competition. And if it were a competition about who is wrong more times, then I would win!

We all learn from our mistakes. Technically, you did not make a mistake. The catalog number you gave is correct.

We all need as many people to chime in as much as possible. I've been absent from the boards for a spell because I've been tied down. I drop in when I can. This time, a scorpion sting hobbled me a bit, so it is a convenient excuse to get some "rest" and visit the SCF! Nice to see many new "names" actively posting!

k

Rodney, shout if you need any help converting the numbers to Gibbons-speak.

The Nanking overprint amused me. It's ever so slightly cheeky. It consists of the single character 'king' (in Wade romanisation or 'jing' in Pinyin). This means '(the) Capital'. (Nanking/Nanjing means 'Southern Capital'; Peking/Beijing means 'Northern Capital'). I suppose that, as these stamps were for use specifically in East China, the single character was sufficient - but perhaps Nanking was still smarting a little from its loss of status.

Thanks Tony,
I'll see if I can nut these out via "simplified"
This status thing intrigues me, most humans seem to like
to huddle together, the bigger the better, New York etc.
I like to disperse, my original preference for a country town
was 900 persons, but I couldn't afford it.
I read once a maximum for any interacting group was 150 beings,
before the "clique" system begins.

Thanks to Jeff, James and khj!




Absolutely, that makes for a healthy discourse,
sometimes the mistakes made by one are commited by others
reading the post.

Top job IDing the reprint, I'll post a higher definition scan
for others to investigate.

So, can anyone explain the "ornament under the lamp" reprint?

Explain in what way, rod222?

Rod, the reprint has an altered ornament on the right side of the lantern base.

Pilfered from an un-named source to protect the guilty.

I would like to thank the guilty.
exceptional spotting ability.

Tony,
can you ID the last one please?
I cannot find it in the simplified,
I bet it's not in the catalogue Grrrr
It is a type 145 and I have checked all of them.

By my elderly Part 17, it's SG EC405 - listed under East China, 11. Jiangsu

Thank you Tony
not listed in SG simplified
overprint example is not shown
Only goes to EC391 then on to parcel stamps

At least I can mount it on my communist china
A : East China's people's post page.

what a pain in the glutinous maximus.