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Two Japan Stamps. What Are These Cancels?

 
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Posted 02/10/2015   11:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add maverickx to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hello! Any help with these cancels would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.



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Posted 02/11/2015   08:01 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stallzer to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Fiscal ?
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Posted 02/11/2015   09:05 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
They look to be 1-sen and 2-sen revenues from one or another series starting in 1898, so revenue cancels would be expected.
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Edited by Cjd - 02/11/2015 09:05 am
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Posted 02/11/2015   10:57 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add maverickx to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you for the input, gentlemen! For the second stamp, I typed "Kamitaki" in google and it came back with a mountain range and also a Hawaii name origin. Can't really find much info on this cancel anywhere. I just started going through my Japan stamps. Very neat colors and designs.
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Posted 02/11/2015   1:27 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Philatarium to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
As the others have said, these are revenues. The red cancel in the first one is a "chop" or seal, with the characters for the last name of the person who cancelled it. I don't know this authoritatively, but usually that means it was some kind of government employee who did it.

The cancel on the second stamp I'm pretty sure would be a business' cancel, probably to cancel a tax stamp that had to be paid on certain kinds of merchandise. The stamp might originally have been placed on a receipt, bill of sale, etc.

Hope that's helpful!
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Posted 02/11/2015   6:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add tonymacg to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The first does indeed have part of a personal seal. I can make out 'Yama' as the first character, but I'm not sure about the second. The whole seal possibly reads 'Yamada'.

The second stamp also does have a company seal on it: the Japanese appears to read something like 'Kamitaki Trading Company' with 'Yokohama' above it.
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