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Posted 11/16/2012   06:33 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Northwinds to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
After going through a few hundred of Chinese stamps and finding these in my Michel catalog I am left with the ones shown in the picture below. I just cannot seem to find them.
Any help appreciated!
Peter

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Posted 11/16/2012   06:50 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Top row, left to right: overprinted for Taiwan; overprinted for Sinkiang/Xinjiang; unissued - looted from the printers in Hong Kong; Post Office Savings Bank stamp
Second row: Overprinted for Sinkiang/Xinjiang; postage due stamp; Post Office Savings Bank stamp; revenue stamp
Bottom row: Overprinted for Mengkiang/Mengjiang (Japanese Occupation); revenue stamp; revenue stamp; Post Office Savings Bank stamp
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Posted 11/18/2012   3:04 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Northwinds to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks very much for your help!
What exactly are Post Office Savings Bank stamps?
Can they be found in stamp catalogs?

Peter
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Posted 11/18/2012   6:08 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The Post Office Savings Bank stamps weren't postage stamps, and so they aren't listed in any of the postage stamp catalogues. I believe there are specialised catalogues that do list them, however.

They were for use in the Post Office Savings Bank. The Chinese Post Office reached deeper into the villages than any of the banks, it was considered to be more reliable than most of the private banks at the time, and it would accept very small deposits - probably smaller than the private banks would be interested in.
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Posted 11/18/2012   6:13 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply


Full set

PS: the three little figurines on what looks like two legs
are ancient chinese coins.


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Edited by rod222 - 11/18/2012 6:19 pm
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Posted 11/18/2012   8:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stampvirgin to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
holy carp, Rod, you ARE a walking encyclopedia..
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Posted 11/18/2012   9:17 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply


You bear me undue expertise, SV.
I merely have access to an easily searchable database.
All the questions have been asked before on some forum or another
and I post what I have. :)

In reality,
I have trouble remembering where my slippers are.........


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