Japan commemorative stamps before the war 1894-1944

We had a meeting of Japan Commemoratives Group last weekend in our offices and I was very impressed by some philatelic materials Mr. Yamamoto showed. Thus I started seeing Japan Commemoratives before the war again this week. There're no covers and the condition of stamps and cancellations are quite common, however, I'm satisfied with them as my sub-collection.

This week, I've been trying to place all the 96 commemoratives before the WW2 from some boxes, envelopes and so on.Here is my report.

1. the stamps found more than 50: 1894 Silver Wedding 2sen, 1900 Wedding 
2. more than 30: 1896 Sino-Japanese War, 1915 Enthronement of Emperor
3. more than 15:1894 Silver Wedding 5sen, 1919 Peace 1.5, 3, 1928 Enthronement, 1937 Patriotic Aviation Fund
4. less than 3:1906 Russo-Japnaese War 3sen, Trial Airmail Flight 1.5sen, 1921 50th anniv. of Postal Service 4sen, 10sen, 1921 Return of Prince 4sen, 10sen, 1925 Silver Wedding 8sen, 20sen, 1927 UPU 6sen, 10sen, 1939 Red Cross, 1940 2600th year 10sen, 20sen, 1942 70th anniv. of Railway, 1942 1st anniv. of East Asia War, 1944 Yasukuni Shrine, 1944 Kwantung Shrine
5. ZERO:1916 Nomination of Prince 10sen, 1919 Trial Airmail Flight 3sen, 1936 30th anniv. of Kwantung Leased Terrirtory, 1942 Manchoukuo 20sen

There are 13 kinds of pre-war commemorative stamps printed more than 10 million copies and I found them easily this time. 

I'll try to classify more mixed lots for a while and then I'd like to start check each stamps carefully.

 

I participated in the Second Philatelic Summit (4) Sweden Error of Color Stamp Yellow Skililing Banco

I found the Sweden Philatelic Society welcomed the philatelists who came from all over the world with the fact they gave us one black book as a present. The Chairperson herself came to the summit.


It said Den Gula Treskillingen. Den is The, Gula is Yellow, Tre is three and you know the currency of Sweden when they started issueing stamps was Skillingbanco.
So you can find which stamp this book is telling.


Well , this  error of color stamp!
The regular color is green as I show you the image of Stampedia Sweden Stamp Catalogue below.
There are still some philatelists who are still suspicious for its genuine of this stamp, however it is the most expensive single stamp in the world and the owner paid for it  2,870,000 CHF when he/her got it recently. I'd also tell there are many some covers and multiples much higher than this stamp in the philatelic world.

I joined the 2nd Philatelic Summit in Malmo, Sweden (3)

Here are what I got at the venue on the first day. One is a book containing all the powerpoint of three days of lectures, and the other is a Certificate of Participation.
The lecture was operated by turning the powerpoint presentation and the atmosphere was very nice I felt.  As all the lecturers explained well, I can understand fully althouth the theme they treated was something very new from what I collect now.
Of course the contents of this summit has copyright, I think I should only show it a little here by photo.

I participated in the Second Philatelic Summit. (2)

The Second Philatelic Summit which I  participated last month was a nice study chance for me and I deeply studied Treatment in stamp exhibition.

Treatment itself occupys only 20 point in all the 100point, however it's a base of stamp exhibition and it is very important to tell a story like writing a book.

Japanese philatelists who don't exhibit overseas have difficulty in feeling how the international judges think, however even those who exhibit like me also misunderstand some of the rules and some times we share wrong information among friends.

So, I'm thinking of sharing this latest knowledge among my philatelic friends who exhibit overseas in Japan this month! Hope this study improve our level!

2012 Japan Prefectural Issues Scenery of the Trip 15 TOKYO

It's natural for Japan Post to release minit-sheet including 10 different stamps recently. I think this trend started in Venezuela in the late 20th century and was seen only in those countries, however can be seen all over the world including Japan.There're no longer many philatelists who collect all the new issues of their own country.
I think that recently more and more stamp collectors only buy new postage stamps which they like. Here are examples of my favorite as I like panda.
The first is EMS cover addressed to Sweden. MITAKA-EKIMAE 23.IV.12. I made a business trip by chance, so I made it. EMS costs a lot but it is fun to attache a full sheet .


Next is an example using Printing Parcel called "Yu-Mail". (The price of 500g-1kg weight is 340 yen)(Toshima / 24 / 4.24)


The last one is registered FDC with special postamark of Ueno Post Office, the post office near the Ueno-zoo, where pandas depicting in these stamps this time live.  This cover came from a musicican and I think it is good for non-philatelists to use this special postmark for their promotion.

I participated in the Second Summit Philatelic (1)

I joined the Malmo 2nd International Philatelic Summit (held on April 27 -29, 2012 at Elite Hotel Savoy in the city Malmö, Sweden)  This event is a lecture and study session for the treatment of Stamp Competitive Exhibition and which  Mr. Jonas Hallstrom ( Swedish philatelist who is a European Champion in the Thematic Philately in Paris 2010) hosts and Postiljonen, the auction house in Malmo, Sweden sponsored.

The number of participants is  90 from  22 countries in the world. Sweden (39), UK(12), Denmark(7) and 1-4 per all the other countries including 1 from eath of Japan, Korea and China. 2 from India. I know no philatelists but 2, however I can find many philatelists by the end of the summit.

 

Every day two or three lecturers talk with slides for more than an hour per each. There are also Q&A so it was never one-way talking. I'll show you the program.

 

First day (27th Apr.)

The concept of treatment in traditional philately Christopher G. Harman,RDP British "The posts of the University Cities of Oxford and Cambridge"

The concept of treatment in postal stationery Lars Engelbrecht, Denmark  "Bicoloured Postal Stationery of Denmark 1871-1905"

 

On the second day (28th Apr.)

The concept of treatment in postal history Patrik Larsson, Sweden "European Samples of no value from 1682 and up to GPU"

The concept of treatment in themathic philately Joachim Maas, Germany "Mathematics, a science between theory and application"

The concept of treatment in traditional philately Frank Walton, UK "Sierre Leone:  The De La Rue stamps 1859 to 1931"

 

The third day (29th Apr.)

The concept of treatment in postal history Chris King, UK "Slesvig : From  Danish Duchy to Prussian Province : early mail to 1867"

The concept of treatment in postal stationery James Peter Gough, USA "UPU: Rules, Regulations and Rates "

Treatment: similarities and differences between the exhibiting classes Henrik Mouritsen, Denmark

 

I'll continue this articles more in the near future.

Japan 2012 Philatelic Wweek

I made a first day cover of Japan 2012 Philatelic week!

When I was a child I'm involved in making FDC, I also sometimes had writing the cachet by myself, (I still have some of them....) Well, basically FDC is evaluated less than I pay, I soon quit making FDC unless I found nice new issue stamps.
Japanese Philatelic Week stamps are recently some of boaring stamps, I promise, however one of the three stamps of this year depicted the paintings in posession of Suntory Museum which locates in the same area of our office, so I decided to make FDC after a long period of absence.
I've been to the Museum shop the day before the issue where I found large post card depicted the painting. When we send this kind of large post card, if the destination is domestic the postage costs same as the envelope, while it is oversead destination, the postage is that of post card.
It's rather complex but I know making FDC which is really posted through the postal system is much interesting than that of only the cover with postmarks. So I made an EXPRESS cover to domestic destination with the cancellation of the arrival postmarks and an EXPRESS cover to Sweden (2nd devision of the international mail) with some barcode of International mail.