Need Help To Identify A Japanese Stamp

I assume it is Japanese, maybe revenue?

Rob,
Tobacco Revenue
1883
2 sen Orange Maybe?...confirmed...the other orangy stamp in the set is the 4 rin.

Lovely page Rod, I've never seen these or even heard of them before.

Thanks for sharing!

Bobby,
Revenues ID to save....
http://www.isjp.org/static/files/pd...Revenues.pdf

Tobacco Page 55.

Thanks, and great useful link.

another one that needs identification unusual cb1 overprint on japan stamp.

The underlying stamp itself is Japan Scott 105, and catalogs as an ordinary used one for the minimum value of $0.25. (Scott 2015)

I would not call the "CB1" an overprint, but rather a cancellation of some kind (perhaps a revenue or consular cancel?). I'm not familiar with it, but perhaps someone else here is.

An interesting example!

Ok, I lucked out and got an answer back really quickly from a friend who knows.

This is called a "countermarked" stamp, and performs the function of a perfin -- it was marked by a company to make sure they were used for company mail.

The "CB1" actually stands for "CBI", which represents the "Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China". This was from their Yokohama branch.

I'm not sure of this, but I believe it would carry a bit of a premium used in this fashion.

Nicely solved Phil !

Thank you Rod, much appreciated

I wish I could take credit, Rodney, but I really got lucky in asking the right person this time!

You deserve the credit here Phil,
you are the conduit between your knowledgeable colleague, and us.
That would have been a difficult nut to crack.

thanks for the info on this. I have a lot of japanese stamps but had never run into something like the cb1 cancel