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Manchurian Local Overprints 1945 - 1947 |
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| Japanese | Kerr 29. |
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| Kyūrenjō | Chiu Cheng | Jiuliancheng | Jiǔ lián chéng | |||||
| 九連成 |
(Site of the Battle of the Yalu River in 1904) |
Chiu-lien-ch'eng | ||||||
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| Map of 1945 | Jui Cheng | |||||||
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This is a set of 3 soft black overprints. The only stamps known for this village. Characters read, left 新用New Use, right 北東 North East. These are all the stamps known for this village. |
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| These stamps have been identified by using Volume II of the Stamp Catalogue of China by Shui-Hon Chan and the four booklet guide The Local Overprinted Stamps of Manchuria 1945-7 by Allen D Kerr (published 1978 and now out of print). Both works are essential for anyone delving seriously into this subject. | ||||||||
