Are These China Stamps Common?

Real new to this and still learning.
Thanks

Yes very common. Thought the junk stamps were released in a variety of issues over many years. I would guess the 4c olive green to be SC# 281 from 1926. The 5c claret is from the 1923 series SC#254. There are earlier releases in 1913, 1915 (your 5c could be from one of those years if it is more of a rose lilac colour, kind of hard to tell from the scan.
The others are all Dr. Sun Yat Sen, except for the large (scan) 1c orange. It is one of the Martyr series of 1932-34. He is Ch'en Ying-shih SC#313
You'll have a great challenge finding all the surcharges on the other Yat Sens. They appear to be regional surcharges, but again difficult to tell at this size.
Nice examples though.

Thanks jamesw for the education.

Hello Atom

As stated earlier, your stamps are relatively common. However, it should be noted that there were various printings of these Chinese stamps, especially the "Junk" series.

You might find the following sites useful for your Chinese stamps:

http://www.chinesephilately.com/

http://www.paperheritage.co.uk/arti...a-Junks.html

http://www.dandotra.com/waterlow2.php

Happy collecting

Chimo

Bujutsu

As an aside, I was examining and cataloging my Junks recently, and noticed there is a train pulled by a steam locomotive passing behind the junk in the background. Never noticed that before.
Cheers, Robert

The first stamp in the bottom row is a Post Office Savings Bank stamp: you won't find it in the catalogues. The second looks like a Gold Yuan surcharge from 1948. Can't be sure about the third stamp, but I think it might be another Gold Yuan surcharge. The fourth and fifth are Chinese National Currency (CNC) surcharges from 1945-6.

The Junk stamps are one of my all time favorite issues. I remember as a young child collector trying to determine the differences between the London printing, and the first and second Peking printing.

They may be "common" , but what a window into a different world for a young boy!

Jim Jackson

I also get befuddled with the various Asian stamps... perhaps ATOM wouldn't mind my posting a few also?

Just a suggestion. If you post pictures of stamps with overprints/surcharges, they need to be bigger. Other than the postal savings stamp at bottom left, the other overprints very difficult to read at that size.