China - Cinderellas Or Revenues?

A Chinese Christmas seal, a revenue & 2 postage stamps Communist pre 1949.

Thank you!

The 2 stamps at right are North China Liberation Area #3L2 and #3L7 in the Scott catalog. Scott has it listed as issued in Mar1946, but Yang has it as Dec1945.

thanks!

I would have been correct I thought it was North China Lib.

Mike, you were correct enough, as far as I am concerned.

k

The "12" is not a bad item, Gibbons #NC-23, £6.50 in 2011. It should be without gum and watermarked wavy lines; issued December, 1945.

I have never seen before an early TBC Christmas' seal from China... are they usual?

I see the Christmas Seals pop up occasionally. Not common but not rare; demand is low.

The Christmas seal is actually from Korea, and in fact, is the 1937 reprint of the first (1932) Christmas seal from Korea, Green's Catalog #1.1, value 50c about 20 years ago.

That's interesting that the Green catalog would say it is Korean. The script indicates Haizhou, which is a district in Liaoning (one of the provinces in China adjacent to North Korea).

I wonder if the reason the Green catalog would assign it to Korea has anything to do with the war between Japan and China?

I don't know the history behind the stamp. And, of course, maybe there is a Haizhou in Korea (I admit I am unfamiliar with the geography of Korea).

I thought it is China item too, but from your discussion I tried to search the Haizhou, there are Haizhou in Liaoning and Haizhou in North Korea, in Chinese pinyin form these place are same name. Try search the word "Haeju" you will get this information from Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haeju

My disclaimer, I can't read squiggly writing at all, and have to go by what the catalog says. It is even illustrated in Green's. The original 1932 seal had a small "D" in "AND," and the 1937 reprint (as shown here) has a normal D. It looks nothing like the 1932 seal(s) of China.

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Keep in mind, Korea was occupied by Japan during this period, and Japan was also nibbling at Manchukuo (China) by 1932, after installing Henry Pu-Yi as head of state, and later emperor.

Very interesting! Learned a lot of new things today.

Chinese script was still in use on the Korean peninsula at that time, so that would not be unusual on the seal.

Thanks, all!

k

I thought Hangul was in widespread use in Korea by the beginning of the 20th century?