China Republic Stamp?

Thoughts on this one? Mainland stamp?

It is a Chinese revenue stamp depicting the Great Wall. They marked a tax on all sales and business transactions and quite a lot of bureaucratic applications and transactions as well. In Britain we have VAT; it's pretty much the same thing.

Each town was expected to overprint the stamp with their own identification. Usually they made do with a couple of typographed Chinese letters. Yours seems to have rather a fancy one. I haven't seen one like that before, but given that there were literally thousands towns doing this, you never really expect to see the same thing twice!

Date - very roughly 1st World War period.

Maverickx,

Searching ebay under China (search "great wall") you can see this stamp design being offered for $5 and under. It is stated to be a revenue stamp and can be seen with many overprints. I did not see the exact overprint you have but you will see several of them for reference.

Googling "china revenue stamps" gives several very nice websites. The following site provides a lot details on this and other sets.(http://www.manchukuostamps.com/Reve...eatWall.htm)


Hobsun

Wow. Thank you both for all of the detailed info! Good stuff! I will read up on these. I'm having a lot of fun and grateful for your expertise!

Peter