General Question On "Japanese" Stamps..................

Hi,
Most all Japanese stamps have the circular chrysanthunum (sorry about the spelling) flower symbol.

My question is, what other stamp issuing countries affiliated with Japan used that symbol?

Obviously I have some stamps I can't seem to place..........

Thank you!

You can try Manchukuo for stamps with a similar symbol.

Robert

Hi,
Well, I finally identified the 5 mystery "Japanese" stamps. Four of them were from the early '40s, and it took a 10 power glass for these old eyes to match them up with their listings in the Scott Catalog. The fifth stamp was a real stumper. It portrays a ship (freighter) at a dock with a locomotive next to it. Overprints lined out original value and made interpretation difficult. Well, this morning I realized that it was in fact a Chinese stamp, and I quickly found it in the catalog. This stamp came with a Japanese country collection I bought, so obviously my assumption was that it had to be Japanese. It was not.

I confess this has happened to me before, where the previous collector posted a stamp in their album under an incorrect country.