Central China Stamps

Anybody recognize these? I can't find them in my books. The light blue stamp is a locomotive and the others look like Mao Tse Tung. Thanks.

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The first is overprinted 'Central China Liberated Area(s)/Revalued to 1 RMB', and the other two also look like Civil War era issues, perhaps for Central China as well.

As far as I know, the 2 Mao stamps are not listed in Scott.

Very good educated guess, Tonymacg!

Central China, Yu-Si Liberation Area
27Dec1945
You have the 4th/5th values in a set of 6.

The stamps are relatively low value, but I don't often see them.

Thank you VERY much for posting!

k

I don't see the train stamp in the Scott catalog either.

Central China, Su-Wan Border Area
Apr1949
You have the low denomination surcharge in a set of 3.

The unsurcharged train stamps were a set of 7, issued 26Apr1946, with numerous color/paper/perforation as well as error varieties.

Ffejy,

On behalf of Rod222, can you edit your first post and change the thread title to Central China stamps.

Thank you!

k

Never come across these before either.
I'll have to see if the opt issue appears in SG trains on stamps

In SG the original $50 train stamp is SG EC278A listed under East China.

The train stamps surcharged like this are listed as SG EC307-SC308.

However, the listed values are:

EC306 $1 on 50c slate-blue (G.), i.e. surcharged in green.

EC307 $2 on 50c slate-blue, i.e. surcharged in black.

EC308 $4 on 50c slate-blue (O.), i.e. surcharged in orange.

All the above are listed under "Jiangsu-Anhui Border Area".

SG lists the two Mao stamps under Central and South China: "Central Plains Postal Administration" as SG CC25 ($34) and CC24 ($26).

There's a warning in SG that the $1, $34 and $42 values of this Mao set "should be mounted in glassine envelopes as they give off colour which penetrates album leaves and affects other stamps."

I'm new to the stamp collecting thing, so could someone tell me what exactly does "SG" stand for? And I would like to thank all of you for responding to my post and providing me with the info on these stamps. Thank you all.

Stanley Gibbons, the famous worldwide catalogs published in Great Britain. China (PRC, ROC, Hong Kong, etc.) is "Part 17," and well worth having, and far more detailed than Scott, as you can see.

Hi ffejy,

"SG" is an abbreviation for "Stanley Gibbons". It's a London-based stamp dealer, auction house and catalogue publisher. The China area is covered in their Part 17 China Catalogue and also, in simplified form, in their "Stamps of the World" catalogue.

http://www.stanleygibbons.com/stanl.../sg_homepage

Not listed in SG trains on stamps,
closest is SGEC307.

Just a teaser,
there are only 12 stamps in the world that feature incline railways.

That should be good for a "completionist"

Funiculars, only, or cog railways, too? Twelve seems low...

Had to Google funicular :)
Cog! we call it rack and pinion.
I had to machine a 12 inch pinion for the final
year exam of my apprenticeship. :)

Unsure Collin, doesn't say, SG are fairly niggardly in their adjoining text.

12 seems OK, can't be many in the world,
(that appears on a stamp)
The only one I recall being on, is the one in Hong Kong.
Scary.

In my copy of "The Postage Stamp Catalogue of The Chinese People's Revolutionary War Period" the 2 Mao issues are shown as issued in 1948, Dec. 27, under the Zhengzhou Postal Adm. which in 1949 with expanded territory evolved into the Central Plains Postal Adm. eventually the it become the Central China Postal Adm. Stamp are ZN15/16, part of a set of six, same design different values. Common.