2012年6月28日木曜日

2012 Japan Stationery Letter Pack Light

I got many new blue "Letter Pack Light" today, which is to be sold at post offices when all the stock of the older one, red "Letter Pack 350" is finished.

I asked a clerk at a post office to sell me this new one if I buy 100 copies with success. I'm going to make some used one with a cancellation of June 2012.

2012年6月15日金曜日

1961 Japan Letter Writing Week HAKONE by Hiroshige Ando

This is an International Registered Letter to Germany, which is classified as the third rate area from Japan those days.

Europe, of course including Germany is now classfied as the second rate area from Japan, however was classified as the third rate area before. I think this is because there are no flight over the north pole those days.

 

2012年6月12日火曜日

Uruguay Japan Joint Issue

A philatelist I encountered at ebay.com sent me this envelope. I'm vey happy as I feel his sense as well as his hospitality to attache such stamps because I'm a Japanese.

 

90th Anniversary of Uruguay-Japan diplomatic relations established (Joint Issue), Block of four
Registered Letter to Japan, $154 
Cancelled "CORREO URUGUAY / 31 MAY 2012 / LOCAL PORTONES" (PORTONES is in English. Meaning of Gates)

 

2012年6月4日月曜日

Occupied Territories, Hong Kong, south

When I was in 8th grade, I exhibited a collection for the first time in my life which contains the stamps issued at the Japanese Military Occupied Area and I got Silver-Bronze medal then.
I stopped collecting them more just because I found super modern Japanese stamps and stationeries more interesting and I started collecting European countries after I started collecting stamps again, but I sometimes think about Japanese Military occupied area stamps and so I joined the club of this theme in Japan and this is the only philatelic club I join now in Japan.
Last weekend as I was busy enought not to go to Osaka, I joined Stamp Fleamarket which Mr. Takasaki held in Asakusa and there I got many Japanese covers. Among them I found the cover used in the Military Occupied Hong Kong. It is sold at 2,000yen (20 EURO) at the Tanaka-ya shop. I felt the cancellation is rather beautiful as it was not cancelled during the period but as it was only 20 Euro, I got it anyway.

When I returned home, I checked the other covers used and cancelled in Hong Kong and I upload the images as well.
Well what I got this time at 20euro is too much beautiful , but is it genuine or fake? How do you think about it?

17.1.22 Hong Kong (22th Jan. 1942)

Registered letter to Japan, Hong Kong 20.5.19 (19th May 1945)