Help With Japan Flora & Fauna Issues

Subject stamps were issued in 1992-94 and Scott identifies the date of issue for the sheet stamps, SC 2154-2167A, but is silent re the coils, SC 2168-69, and the booklets, SC 2170-73.

Since the title of the section is "1992-94", should I infer that all the coils and booklets were issued in 1992? Does anyone in the Forum have definitive information?

Thanks in advance...

Donald

Hi, Donald --

Hang on for a couple of minutes. The Sakura catalog should have the actual issue dates of the coils and the booklets.

This area is a little complicated, because in Japanese catalogs this definitive series runs quite a bit longer than Scott indicates.

But I can get back to you soon with the issue dates of the coil and booklet stamps listed in that section of Scott.

-- Dave

Scott 2168 (50-yen coil), issued Jan 24, 1994
Scott 2169 (80-yen coil), issued same date

Scott 2170 & 2172 (41-yen & 62-yen booklet stamps), issued together in the same booklet on Nov 30, 1992 (same as regular sheet stamp)

Scott 2171 & 2173 (50-yen & 80-yen booklet stamps), issued together in same booklet on Jan 24, 1994 (about 6 days after the regular sheet)

Note that some additional denominations of this series were issued 1996-1998. I can try to cross-reference this back to Scott numbers later, are can provide those issue dates now.

Hope this is helpful!

-- Dave

While I have the Sakura handy, but not the Scott, here are the additional values in that series:

20 yen: Nov 28, 1997
30 yen: (same)
70 yen: Jul 22, 1997
110 yen: (same)
120 yen: Feb 16, 1998
140 yen: (same)
160 yen: Feb 23, 1998
390 yen: Mar 28, 1996
700 yen: Jul 4, 1995
1000 yen: Mar 28, 1996

Those last two stamps don't necessarily look like they belong to the same series. They are larger (more like a definitive commemorative with portrait orientation) and don't have that triangular design in the upper-right corner beneath the denomination.

I can try to correlate these back to Scott later, if you need that.

-- Dave

oops: edit made above

Those later stamps are in the cluster of Scott 2475-2488.

-- Dave

Thank you, Dave, for a very thorough answer and for anticipating that I would be moving on into the later issues. This helps a lot; I don't have a Sakura catalog, so have to rely on Scott and the Forum.

Regards,
Donald

Donald: Happy to help out! Sorry if it was too thorough an answer. I'm always thrilled when someone answers a Japan question that I can actually answer!

By the way, I was re-reading one of my posts above and see a mistake I made. I should have said the 2 highest-value issues look like the size and shape of commemoratives (not definitives) with a portrait orientation).

(I should never post while someone is making dinner nearby -- too distracting!)

-- Dave

You can never be too thorough for this slow learner. I had inherited a small batch of Japan stamps last year and another small batch this year and have finally gotten around to classifying them and putting them in an album. Most were from the 1960s and 1980s with a few older and an even smaller number newer than that. Three or four look like envelope stamps.

Thanks, again.
Donald

You bet -- anytime. Feel free to post images of anything that you have difficulty identifying, and I'm sure someone here will have the answer. The envelope cut squares, too.

Someday I hope to get a little website that helps answer questions about Japanese stamps (beyond identifying the early forgeries), so I'm always interested in the questions that people have.

Cheers!

-- Dave

Dave: I was wrong about the envelope squares; they are imperforate stamps of the early-mid 1940s. I am pulling apart six older albums from the 1950s-60s and one of the albums specifically referred to those issues, so I did some more digging and confirmed they are imperforate stamps.

Always something to learn...

Donald

Definitely always something to learn --- I'm hoping this is my effort to keep my brain going into my senior years!

Definitely keep us posted on your progress!

-- Dave

Finally finished sorting and have begun cataloging. I was able to upgrade a few of my album stamps with more interesting copies with legible date and/or city postmarks, always a plus for me. Found eight stamps from the 19th century, 1883-1899, and these will get mounts, not hinges. Have set aside about 75 different duplicates and will figure out what to do with them later.

Donald

Hey, Donald, that's great news! Keep us posted, and, if you end up with any other questions, hopefully someone here will be able to answer them.

I've collected Japan for about 20 years, so have run into most (but certainly not all) of the questions during that time, but am still a long way from being an expert ...

Have fun!

-- Dave