South Korea: Laid paper issues of 1955-56
Jul 23, 2022 4:32:24 GMT
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Post by darkormex on Jul 23, 2022 4:32:24 GMT
I purchased a couple of folders of South Korean stamps on pages from old albums at the most recent bourse and I have been sorting and identifying those large format definitives from the 1950s and 60s. The laid paper issues are interesting because there are a number of varieties. Mainly, the paper is vertically laid but there are also horizontally laid paper varieties which are less common.
The Scott Catalogue refers to all of these laid paper definitives of various designs as simply, "laid paper" and has additional notes that they are found on both horizontally and vertically laid paper but does not give the horizontal variety a minor catalog number which I think is inconsistent. The definitives from this period include the following Scott nos:
203A-E, 212A-212C, 212D-212F and 235-239.
There are also laid paper commemoratives issued during this period but I am not discussing those here. Here are some examples I found as I was going through these pages. From left to right, top to bottom, the Sc. nos. here are 237, 212C, 235 and (2) copies of 203E. I like the postmark on Sc. 235 (upper right depiction of the Rose of Sharon flower) because it has the town name in Chinese characters. It is probably Nam Dae Mun or, in english, the great South Gate in Seoul. Chinese character cancels virtually disappeared as the country moved forward into the 1960s.
Horizontal laid paper varieties of some of these issues are scarce and it is always a challenge to try and find them.
I have scanned these on a black background to make the vertical lines easier to see but this is not successful for all the stamps in this scan.
The Scott Catalogue refers to all of these laid paper definitives of various designs as simply, "laid paper" and has additional notes that they are found on both horizontally and vertically laid paper but does not give the horizontal variety a minor catalog number which I think is inconsistent. The definitives from this period include the following Scott nos:
203A-E, 212A-212C, 212D-212F and 235-239.
There are also laid paper commemoratives issued during this period but I am not discussing those here. Here are some examples I found as I was going through these pages. From left to right, top to bottom, the Sc. nos. here are 237, 212C, 235 and (2) copies of 203E. I like the postmark on Sc. 235 (upper right depiction of the Rose of Sharon flower) because it has the town name in Chinese characters. It is probably Nam Dae Mun or, in english, the great South Gate in Seoul. Chinese character cancels virtually disappeared as the country moved forward into the 1960s.
Horizontal laid paper varieties of some of these issues are scarce and it is always a challenge to try and find them.
I have scanned these on a black background to make the vertical lines easier to see but this is not successful for all the stamps in this scan.
