Japan Revenues - Tobacco, Court, Documentary, Etc.

No, Forbin is not the answer. They might be (mostly) there...the answer is Barefoot South East Asia, or Shimomura. I think I am going to go for the Barefoot, for the extra coverage (and the English language).

From Barefoot:

Dear all,

A recently published reference to japanese revenues and cinderellas are "Narumi's Japanese Fiscal Stamp Catalogue", edited by Koichi Furuya (2011, published by Narumi co., Japan).

The author, Mr. Furuya is a specialist in hand engraved revenues (the first series of the documentary revenues), the catalogue contains an extensive list of engraving errors and plate varieties. Fully colored, another must (together with Shimomura book) for Japanese revenue collector. Again, the main text is in Japanese�c

It could be purchased through Narumi Co., although I am not quite certain if they accept overseas purchase order. Here's the link to the Furuya catalogue page @ Narumi, Co.

http://www.narumi-stamp.jp/tan_zou_052.html

Happy collecting !

unechan@Osaka, Japan

Dear Cid and all;

The second "stamp" is a kind of mystery...

The inscriptions could be read as;

"paper seal" / "insurance item" (?? the third character from right is not readable) /"traffic department"

("Fuukan-shi" / "Ho-ken ** Ken" / "Koutsu-kyoku" in Japanese)

Thus I suspect that this is a seal paper used to seal the insurance documents, used either in the traffic department of police offices or in the Ministry of Transport.

It does resemble the small version of cash mail envelope seal (officially distributed through post office), but definitely not the same item.

Happy collecting !

unechan@Osaka, Japan

Thanks for the additional information. I haven't been around here very much lately, so I'm glad to have seen your messages.

Unechan: Welcome to the board! We definitely need someone with your background and interests on here! I hope you'll continue to participate on here because from time to time difficult Japan questions are posed here that the rest of us can't answer. (At best, sometimes we can just offer a best guess.)

I have a question about the Furuya catalog. Did it replace Shimomura? (Did Mr. Shimomura finally pass?) I have the 2003 Shimomura, which I ordered directly from him at the time. This Furuya catalog is the first new catalog I've learned about since the Shimomura. In other words, did Furuya build and expand on Shimomura's work (and/or did he purchase ownership of the Shimomura publication), or did he start a new catalog altogether, building from the ground up?

Again, thanks very much for participating!

-- Dave

Dear Dave, sorry for the belated reply.




The Furuya catalogues have been issued since 1980, and are new catalogues independent of Shimomura. According to the afterword to Shimomura catalogue, 1981 version, Mr. Furuya discontinued to work with Mr. Shimomura and started his new catalogue.

The most distinct feature of Furuya catalogue is the detailed description of the hand engraved issues (Mr. Furuya is a true expert and authority of the hand engraved issues). It is also the only fully colored catalogue, showing all the stamp images. The government issued revenues and fiscals are fully covered, but the cinderellas are limited to major issues. So I would say that Furuya catalogue is not the extension of Shimomura which tried to cover all of the revenue stamps (including seals and prefecture issues).

I am not quite sure if Mr. Shimomura has passed, but the 2010 version of his catalogue is now out of print, so the Furuya 2011 version is the only available catalogue now in the market.

Regards,

- Hironobu

unechan@Osaka, Japan