Fireworks

I don't think it's very hot in Tokyo this year and here we have many fireworks events. As you know, there're several Japanese stamps depicting fireworks and I love them. We also have new fireworks stamps this year and I'd like to show the used EXPRESS example here.

Furusato stamps Local festival 8th series "Tenjin Matsuri" ( one of two se-tenants) issued on June 15th, 2012.

Post; Aug. 3rd 2012 / Numazu-Nishi 

Arrival; Aug. 4th 2012 /  Akasaka

 

97 HONG KONG WILL COME BACK TO CHINA .... What's this?

What I'm now studying is these Chinese commemorative sheet. The set contains five sheets and each has the number such as Hong Kong J97.111 5-1 but they are not stamps. I found there're  some examples in Chinese net auctions but there are no more information there. The set of five is sold at 15 RMB equal to around 2 USD. What is important for me is what it is.... If you know what it is, please give me some comment!

Japan Postal Cards Collection

It is not so easy collecting postal stationeries when I was in Jr. high school as there are no net-auction and stamp flea market those days. Of course there were some stamp show and some dealer provided those stationeries at the higher costs than the price shown on the catalogues. I can seldom get them.
The shown below are what  I get at the flea market in Tokyo last Saturday. It cost me 4USD for all (50cent per each), though the catalogue price is 12USD. They're on sale without thinking varieties of cancellation, so it is possible to make a nice collection of post cards without paying too much.
I know there are some examples with special cancellation of the trial machine cancellation and so on, however I'd like to complete it with normal cancellation at first.

Summer greeting cards and other stationery time of elementary and junior high school students, was curious in a colorful picture book reading only the hole and Japan stamp colors. Where is it at the time I also intended to collect? I did not know. I did not even online auctions, but it was not mentioned in hand with value significantly greater than the catalog value, etc. Although you will see occasionally JAPEX.
Below is a Japanese stationery, recently found a sheet from a bunch of 50 yen stamp on the market. The catalog is $ 1,200 cherry evaluation does not depend only eight so 400 yen. Because the 50 yen mark the type of uniform in spite of New Year's date and, if you pick up a decent collection, use your head. It becomes high type or special handling Hitachi enters, in the range you can buy for $ 50 a piece, I wanted to try to complete a little.

Movie of Stampedia Exhibition

 

We prepared this movie for the last PHILANIPPON2012. I'd like to show it again here. Click the triangle!

If I were a Jr. high school student, I can make a nice collection with using Stamp Flea Market.

Yesterday I went to the stamp fleamarket in Ikebukuro. I bought many covers (cost 50cent -1 USD per each) but paid only 30-40 USD at most. When I buy stamps at stamp flea market, all I need is time but money. It is really interesting finding nice material from mountains of covers, however I can keep doing at most one hour now and this time I gave up doing it after 90 min. working!! It's more fun talking with friends in a cafe nearby.

When I was in Jr. high school students, there are no stamp flea market in Tokyo. If there were such a flea market those days, I believe I could make the better collection in my childhood. So I think the philatelic situation in Tokyo is especially fantastic for the younger philatelists now, however, there were no child philatelists in the fleamarket yesterday as usual...  

Making of Stampedia

 

We prepared this movie for the last PHILANIPPON2012. I'd like to show it again here. Click the triangle!

 

JAPAN, FDC of bilingual machine cancellation

As I've been to the west-Japan, it's been a time since I write a last blog. I'm happy I  wrote 21 blog spots last month! Well by the end of July, I've finished writing articles for some philatelic magazines and decided to apply some intenational exhibitions. I'm going to exhibit my Swiss collection for the upcoming exhibition and I think it'll be accepted as it is a first time I exhibit that work at an international show, so I have to study more and more from now on. I have fun with studying plate position, classification of papers and stampless covers.

By the way, the shown is what I get recently as my sub collection of bilingual machine cancellation.I'd like to make an exhibit work on this cancellation some day. TOKYO Dec. 1, 1968. The first day cancellation.