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Can anyone shed light on what this is? Stamp or cinderella?
I found the design attractive and noticed the strange perforations.
Seems to have one overprint (centre) and three cancellations (round).
Thanks for any input.
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Way neat! Thanks for posting it.
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It is a Japanese Revenue stamp, My Japanese Revenue catalog is almost completely in Japanese which I only know a tiny bit of, but it appears to be from the "Free Official Cash Mailer (1901 - 1948)" series, I'm guessing PC 3 from 1910 - the stamps can vary depending on the red overprinted character in the middle and the shape of the perfins.
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Thanks Josh - that cleared that little problem for me. I tried looking at other Japanese stamps to see if I could recognize any characters, but failed miserably.
I was wondering about the perforations - rather unusual, any ideas why they did it like this?
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Looks very similar to the band on a pack of cards so maybe went around the edge of a package to guarantee that it was complete.
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"I was wondering about the perforations - rather unusual, any ideas why they did it like this?"
Similar perforations were used on labels attached to registered envelopes containing cash. It is thought that these may be an anti-tamper feature; in that were they to be pulled off the envelope, they would tear.
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Hi - Came across this when sorting through a bunch of stamps.
Can anyone shed light on what this is? Stamp or cinderella?
I found the design attractive and noticed the strange perforations.
Seems to have one overprint (centre) and three cancellations (round).
Thanks for any input.
tedmast
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Way neat! Thanks for posting it.
Dan C.
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It is a Japanese Revenue stamp, My Japanese Revenue catalog is almost completely in Japanese which I only know a tiny bit of, but it appears to be from the "Free Official Cash Mailer (1901 - 1948)" series, I'm guessing PC 3 from 1910 - the stamps can vary depending on the red overprinted character in the middle and the shape of the perfins.
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Thanks Josh - that cleared that little problem for me. I tried looking at other Japanese stamps to see if I could recognize any characters, but failed miserably.
I was wondering about the perforations - rather unusual, any ideas why they did it like this?
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Looks very similar to the band on a pack of cards so maybe went around the edge of a package to guarantee that it was complete.
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"I was wondering about the perforations - rather unusual, any ideas why they did it like this?"
Similar perforations were used on labels attached to registered envelopes containing cash. It is thought that these may be an anti-tamper feature; in that were they to be pulled off the envelope, they would tear.
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