Post by crisger on Jun 8, 2022 22:54:34 GMT
Hello all,
finally after a long while, I have started mounting the stamps for Japan I have been securing from various sources. Some are older albums I am combining, some are purchased at auction and from dealers I have been working with, and it is very much a pleasant time to be doing this. I am working out what mounts from Prinz and other suppliers can work some need trimming but i see for Japan for the early stamps, there are some pretty regular sizes. I will venture into working with some of the commemorative sheets, National Park sheets and other larger items tonight, but so far am working up to around 1955 or so. I plan tonight to also work on the earliest, as i have been studying various sources, some of them from the ISJP that I have become a member of on the subject of forgeries, and it will be very interesting as I cull the various sourced stamps I have to see if i can pick out some of the false ones. I will report and post some page pics soon, but have a lot to work on for now. just is fun to be able to share the stages of this work with you all who all encounter and work with the same challenges.
It is a real joy to learn from each stamp for I am familiar from study of the Meiji Era and other eras what was going on in Japan when these stamps were issued, and it is a moving experience to hold in my own hands what was used by people many now long passed on in their daily lives and work for posting. This is a remarkable engagement, Philately. I understand that originally those who collected stamps were known by various terms, Stamp Gatherers was one, but the term now used Wikipedia tells us,
"The word "philately" is the English transliteration of the French "philatélie", coined by Georges Herpin in 1864"
From the Meiji and beyond
Emperor Meiji 明治天皇, Meiji-tennō, 3 November 1852 – 30 July 1912,
the original Japanese Post Box
Higashi Chaya District (東茶屋街
Chris