Vilyehn

Got an example of everything you pictured, shao8086, which confirms the rarity of Li Xiaoming's example.

Except for William F. Bonner's work on Shanghai Cancels, I do not know of any list of a city's known  standard round postmarks.

This is just 1/8 of the Tientsin file of cancels I have.

TIENTSIN
Cancellation Classification.

All Chinese characters / Chinese-English Bilingual

Chinese-English Bilingual

I. English in the Middle
   A. Characters on top, date on bottom                                       
         1. Flat line characters, date in two lines, month in English
                        Coiling Dragons 1902 1908
            a. With Chinese character Sub Office
                  1. and with Heavenly Stem  
                           Coiling Dragons
            b. With Heavenly Stem between and below
                          1936 Junk
           c.  With Heavenly Stem below
                          1915 Junk
        2. Flat line characters, date in one line, month in English
          a.  With Letter below date
                         B 1919 Junk
          b. With Letter above characters
                        D 1923 Junk
      3. Flat line characters, date in one line, ALL NUMBERS
          a. With Letter above characters
                        Li Xiaoming's example
II. English on Top
  A. All character date in middle
        1. Chinese characters on bottom
             a. With Chinese character Sub Office
                       Junk 1936, Martyrs
                  1. and with Heavenly Stem  
                           Coiling Dragons
            b. With Heavenly Stem between and below
                          1936 Junk
           c.  With Heavenly Stem below
                          1915 Junk
           d.  With Letter     
  B. All number date in middle
                          1932 Junk
       1. With Sub Office number after English
                          Martyrs Occupation
II. English on Bottom
  A. Dotted circle   
       1. All number date
                       1922 Junk, Martyrs
            a.  With Letter  above and between characters
                         B 1935 Martyrs
            b. With Heavenly Stem between characters
                        1941 Sun A57 Occupation
            c. With Heavenly Stem below English
                        Sun A82 792
       2. All character date
                        Martyrs
  B. Round (Machine)
      1. All character date
                        Junk, Sun A37
  C. Solid circle and bar
      1. All number date
                       1936  Scott 330
      2. All character date
          a. With Kiosk
                      1947 Sun A40 Scott 640

Vilyehn

..ok, that was a neatly spaced table until I hit the send button.

shao8086

Got an example of everything you pictured, shao8086, which confirms the rarity of Li Xiaoming's exam ...
Vilyehn 发表于 2015-2-5 19:55

The Chinese "Tientsin Fu" as No.73-1 in Mr. Chan cataloge used 1921.11.2~1927.12.7, But Mr. Li example used 1930,

So you may be see this one, I think with more like this you haven't found it.

Vilyehn

"So you may be see this one, I think with more like this you haven't found it."

I think from 1968 to 2015 I've looked at over 70.000 China 1912-1949 stamps.

Not enough!

More, more, always more.

What is the full name to the Mr. Chan catalogue so that I can borrow a copy from the China Stamp Society library. Would the volumes by Paul Ke-Shing Chang be of help. I still have not purchased the CSS China Clipper on CD.

shao8086

回复 24# Vilyehn

Your focus the stamp used in 1928 or later.

STAMP_XU

找到了相交的对象，叫人羡慕。

Vilyehn

If everything was available at the same time and I only had limited funds, I'd rank my collecting interests as:

1st: Junks 1913 -  ?
2nd: Sun A37 1931-37
3rd: Sun A57  1937-40
4th: Martyrs

Half the time I buy collections and lots on eBay where only a few of the seller described "cancel interests" are actually interesting cancels.
And half the time I buy mixtures or sealed bundles and see what I can find.

Republican overprints on Coiling Dragons and commemorative stamps are usually too expensive to buy in mass quantities.

Vilyehn

P.S.

I would love to get a complete set of twelve Heavenly Stems
Any city, but matching stamp type and value. 1 cent Junk, 5 cent Sun A37, etc.
Any date, any year, but all 12 on the exact same stamp.

And even better, if possible, matching cancel type. English top, middle, or bottom.

HEAVENLY STEMS
甲    Jia 甲 - first sun
乙    Yi
丙    Bing
丁    Ding
戊    Wu
已    Ji
庚    Geng
辛    Xin
壬    Ren
癸    Gui

Vilyehn

Reply 1 # lioulee_1983


This appears to be slightly different.The 4 is slanted.
The first H is wider.
The first A is pointed.


Did the handstamp wear out and have characters replaced, or is this an entirely different handstamp?


Of 100 examples of CHANGSHA on Republican Stamps, this is my only example of the top arched characters with character sub office.




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