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progress report … MXC constructs . the library of grouped indicia or cancel slugs is advancing moderately… my active study beyond the spiro sheets , includes two basic groups: bota and nijumaru, or double circle. bota subgroups : the foreign seapost , and letter cancels . these will be classified according to the latest cancel monograph of the JPS 2008 ed. … this will allow collectors to separate the
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From Japanese kobans 1876-92 this is an example of a Meiji Tokyo bota and n3b2 nujimaru or double circle cancel … a.k.a. duplex cancel … during the early period of the IJPO the foreign mails were handled by a separate FMPO in the city … in modern times, with routing procedures and labeling, substations in the tokyo district can...
koban imitations wanted ! From Japanese kobans 1876-92 From Japanese kobans 1876-92 WANTED : koban imitations bearing any of the bota or double-circle (nijumaru) cancels forms shown … please send item scans 600dpi-2x images … stamptrader.ca@gmail.com stamptrader.ca worldwide offers HES imitations offered 1:1 …
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Ron Casey , now editor of JP has compiled information on the source of koban forgeries of Japan in ISJP Monograph 17 – a study of “tourist sheets” … a masterful work … finest research, chronology and printing …this is the best companion reference to ISJP V2 CD on forgeries, no doubt ! anecdotally … the...
a time-series approach … correlation of genuine and repro kobans as time passes, more is known about the relationships between the artists, sources of the reproductions and their distribution globally… woodblock method is not unique to Edo period artists of japan, but continues today … Varro Tyler, remarked that several european...
having worked with this guide for some weeks, I recommend it …. the foreign mail section has been audited , bringing forward new indicia from the Nishino study … for telegraph enthusiasts, this section has been expanded greatly … the small double-circle cancels are a fine way to represent kobans … this is not a price guide...
having worked with this guide for some weeks, I recommend it …. the foreign mail section has been audited , bringing forward new indicia from the Nishino study … for telegraph enthusiasts, this section has been expanded greatly … the small double-circle cancels are a fine way to represent kobans … this is not a price guide...
the 10sen shown is from plate 1, position 13 … as an example of a spiro-plate repro, it is unique in unused state … only a faint mark appears in the SE corner on the perfs. normally, spiro sheets bear 9 black cancels : roman-letter or FM obliterators in combination1 … this group I term an MXC – or, cancel matrix …...
for specialists : I have complied pdf reports of groups of kobans… maruichi and telegraph (denshin) cancels these are traded based on JSCA catalog ECV …. will exchange for FM cancels I need for my collection; or koban imitations … botas in particular. please enquire
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Columnist Dan Rodricks writes on the Baltimore Sun’s website, “A foreign student I knew in college said he loved America for three reasons: our freedoms, the quality of our peanut butter and the excellence of our postal service. He thought it was cool that we could gather and protest anything we wanted to, whenever we wanted to. He...
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