Help With ID Of Martyr A47 20c Huang Hsing

Vertical characters on this stamp look like those of Scott ROC 1913-1919. However, I cannot match this particular design with later Martyr overprint descriptions. Comments welcome. Thanks for looking!

It is a Sinkiang overprint, and it does not appear to be listed in Scott. The overprint looks incredibly suspicious -- the overprint is not only crooked, but the characters are out of alignment (even compensating for the slant, they are still out of alignment), and the overprint ink appears to be the same as the cancel ink.

I'll also add that the font is not like any of the fonts for the overprints shown in Scott. I'm afraid my China is archived in storage, so I can't look it up to compare to what I have.

@khj Thank you for the input! This stamp is becoming very interesting. Any suggestions where to get more info?

The only Sinkiang Opts I have.........

Rod, the top left stamp in your picture is Meng Chiang (Inner Mongolia) 2N127(1945) in the Back-of-the-Book section for Republic of China in the Scott catalog.

In the Meng Chiang overprint, the top right and top left characters indicate Meng Chiang.

In the Sinkiang overprints the right 2 characters (for horizontal overprints) and the top 2 characters (for vertical overprints) indicate Sinkiang.

Jonathan, the difference in font, the ink, the appearance that it is a single handstamp... suggests that it might be a local overprint. I am not knowledgeable enough to know if local overprints existed for that issue/time, nor do I have any references that might have that info. Sorry. Hopefully one of the China experts can chime in...

@khj Thanks for the insight thus far. I appreciate it.

@rod222 nice ones! I have few of those except for the top left 2N127 described by khj.

Super...Thanks khj !
Great knowledge of a difficult discipline.

Update...............khj

I had the stamp in 2 locations on my computer
I had previously identified it, maybe 7 years ago
but had never returned

I was using SG then, had it under China (Japanese Occupation)

Now with Scott
I'll put under North China (Meng Chiang)

I need to learn to count again. It's past the editing time-out, so I can't correct the original post regarding the location of the Sinkiang overprint characters. The sentence:




should read:

In the Sinkiang overprints the 2nd and 3rd characters from the right (for horizontal overprints) and the 2nd and 3rd characters from the top (for vertical overprints) indicate Sinkiang Province. It is abbreviated "Sin Province" in accordance to the traditional 1-character abbreviation.