Stamps From China And Japan ???

Can anyone tell me about these? There from inherited collection. I'm trying to sort out.

Your request is too complex.
What you need to do, is to purchase a catalogue of Japan
and begin to sort yourself, perhaps a new hobby is in the offing?

Here is Scott Japan for $27
http://scottcataloguepages.com/Search.aspx?k=japan

Thanks, I've got a lot of books to buy.

Good Luck,
start slowly, enjoy the journey,
it can offer an Oasis of retreat and solitude mixed with discovery and entertainment,
for the rest of your life.

Indeed I have been spending hours sorting stamps from all over the globe. My wife says I'm obsessed.

Danny, your largest local library may well have the Scott catalogs available for reference. (I know the main library downtown in Greenville does.) Depending on the library system, they may keep the most recent version in-house for reference, but let the older volumes circulate. (It's been a 6-volume set in the recent years, by the way.) If so, *any* Scott volume has a very good stamp identifier in the back of the book. It's the same worldwide identifier, no matter which volume you get of the 6-volume worldwide set. (There is a separate US Specialized volume, which won't help you with non-US identification.)

I would start with that. Easy, cheap (just gas $).

Also, in the front of any of those volumes is an excellent introduction to stamps, the terms used, etc.

(PS. I am originally from Upstate SC, and was back there a couple of years ago, which is how I knew about the catalogs. Not sure about Anderson County, but you may be able to check online. Your search term of "Scott stamp" ought to be enough to find anything they have.)

By the way, I can tell just from glancing at the first picture that everything from the top 3 rows is Japan, plus the 4th and 8th stamp (going left to right) on the bottom/4th row.

The first two stamps on that bottom row are Manchukuo (a Japanese puppet state in China, but listed in Scott).

I'm afraid I don't know my China stamps well enough to give you much help from the pics.

Also, nearly all of the Japanese stamps can still be hard to identify. You would likely need to be able to learn how to check for watermarks (it's easy, and these stamps do not have fugitive inks, so you can use lighter fluid), and, in some cases, identifying perforations (you'll need a perforation gauge for that) and maybe paper type.

Again, the Scott catalog can help you with the basics, as can Googling for the topics. (Any "how-to" articles from Linn's Stamp News or the American Philatelic Society could, I think, be considered credible.)

To the library I go, lol. I have a feeling I am about to become a stampaholic

Lol -- you could do a lot worse!

(And you'll be amazed at what you'll learn about the world!)

Danny, some of the Japanese stamps are Occupation stamps for countries in South East Asia.


Peter

Rule of thumb - Loust Blossum design is Japan; clear disc with points is China

Here is a good stamp identifier resource: http://www.stampmasteralbum.com/For...fierHome.htm