Japanese Occupied Philippines

I think these are Japanese governed Philippines. These stamps are attaches to the glistening piece of paper in the back, which matches the exact size of the stamps. This paper separates from the actual stamp very easily without any damage to the stamp. If I were to guess, I'd say it is there on purpose, and it does not look to me that it is cut out of an album, too close to the edges. I have another (different) set of occupation stamps with this funny back paper piece. What is it?

I believe you have Burma occupation stamps. Philippines would not have used Asia Characters for inscriptions!

Thanks. Another question: If I have a stamp of a country occupied by another country, do I look up a catalogue under the name of occupier or the one which is occupied? For instance, a German occupied Poland, do I look up Poland or Germany? Sorry, have not done this for 40 years.

General catalogs will listed it with the country that has been occupied,, ie Burma, Philippines. However, specialized catalogs, ie Japan would carry great detail on territories they occupied!

These are Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. It says so on the stamps.

The paper on the reverse could simply be tropical interleaving, added to prevent sheets sticking to each other.

Here's the part identifying them as Philippines:



These are Scott N13 & N22.

Glancing through Scott, it looks like there are only 2 stamp sets during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines that don't have some kind of Roman alphabet writing on them, or else are overprints of other Philippines stamps. These 2 above are from a set of 14, but the other stamps are similar enough that you'd know they're from the same set. (Some have a landscape orientation.)

The other set that doesn't have some kind of identifying Romanization on it is this set of 2 (N26-27), of which only the lower value is shown here:



If unused hinged, all 3 stamps are just minimum value stamps ($0.25), if unhinged, the 25-centavo brown is $0.35, and the rest are $0.30.

(I borrowed the image of the N26 from someone's listing on ebay. They're asking $9.95 for the lightly hinged version of that $0.25 stamp. It even shows spots of toning on the back.)

Hope that helps a bit!