Help Identifying Japan Stamps

The colorful reindeer on the end and the white cat in the bottom row are also both from the Greeting stamps of 2003.

Hi !

Thanks a lot for all participation !

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22 crows : 2nd stamp, 500y from the definitive set that started in 1952 (although this one might be listed in Scott as 1955), SG670, "Bridge and Irises" (from lacquered box).

I don't find them, the definitive set in this range of all it have a "500" but it's not the same design.

Are you able to check them again ?

Thanks a lot !

I'm on the road, no Sakura catalog with me. However, I can tell you the following info:

Row 1, the 500y stamp is a remainder cancel, not postally used

Row 4, the 80y stamp showing the 2 girls is a prefecture issue (look in the Z# listings for Japan).

All the other stamps are national issues, NOT prefecture issues.

I will return to US in about 2 weeks. If nobody else has IDed the remaining stamps, I'll fill in the blanks then.

Nice batch of stamps. I picked up several hundred different modern used Japan for fun last year (I normally collect pre-1940 stamps), so I enjoyed seeing your scans!

k

Hi !

THanks for the nice information !

I'm collecting stamps for about 20 years with up and down period but it's the first time that I buy stamp of Japan and some of them are more difficult to find in the Scott catalogue.

You write :

- Row 1, the 500y stamp is a remainder cancel, not postally used

What is it exactly ?

- All the other stamps are national issues, NOT prefecture issues.

Does is it listed in the Scott ?

Thanks !

REGARDING REMAINDERS
At various time periods in history, excess Japanese mint stamps were taken off sale after a certain date, canceled and sold in bulk. These are known as "remainder cancels" -- typically seen as 2 broadly spaced continuous wavy lines that run horizontally across the stamp. Do not assume that if it has no gum, then it is a genuine postally used cancel.

There is, however, a legitimate wavy line cancel, but it is not continuous, is usually slightly off-axis from horizontal, and you typically can see part of a circular date cancel somewhere on the stamp.

Sorry, I am unable to upload pics from my current location.

REGARDING SCOTT LISTINGS
Yes, the prefecture issue is listed in Scott. Just glancing quickly, I would say all the other yet identified issues are also Scott listed.

k

Hello ccool,

The "bridge and irises" stamp is Scott #609 from 1955.

No need to carry my catalogs with me when Nigel is around!

k

Hi k, I hope your trip is going well. Safe travels!

Thanks, Nigel! You know I usually lug a few catalogs with me, but not this time, so I'm looking forward to returning to the US at the end of next week.

I'm going to have to find time to go crabbing before a storm pulls into the Gulf of Mexico and sends the oil our way.

k

Hi !

ok for the Scott 609, I don't know for what I don't see is before, it's a easy one...

Thanks again for this information !

Hi ccool, I am back at it again. I had a thought to look at the cancels and then I had to find my saved charts of the Emperor year dates.

The Japanese cancels sometimes have the year date as based on the reign of the current emperor, the year 2009 being Emperor Heisei 21, Heisei 12 being the year 2000, and so forth. Some cancels have both the Georgian dating system (ours) and the Japanese Emperor date.

To get our year add the Emperor year to 1988. Stamps issued before that add the Emperor year to 1925.

So, on the first photo, bottom row, the white puppy dogs stamp, the cancel is 18 4 2 which is Heisei 18 or 2006. That stamp is from April 2006 Philatelic Week series.

The stamp next to it, that looks like a crab to me, is Emperor year 19 or 2007. Not sure which series as that nice web site provided by Rod runs out of info that year for some issues. narrows the search down though.

Link to dates On Stamps a topic by nic that has a discussion on Japanese dates on page 5: https://goscf.com/t/5548&whichpage=5

The first photo, two girls dancing prefecture stamp has a combo cancel on it from 2007, not sure of the series here either.

I like cancels.

Borrowed from another thread on SCF is this comparison of the national and prefectural characters. I use the second characters (so far) as I like those curved lines.

Row 4, stamp 4, cherry blossums around a shrine is March 2007 World heritage Third Series part 2.