by Lois Evans | 2021 Dec 17 | Dragon Stamps
Private Souvenir Sheet of the 500 Mon Invert 500 Mon Dragon, Plate 1, Position 8 Inverted Value Characters in Black Where this stamp had been for the first eighty years of it life will never be known. A young man from Pennsylvania inherited this stamp from his...
by Lois Evans | 2021 Dec 9 | Dragon Stamps
Private Souvenir Sheets from the 1950’s and 60’S Japan Stamp Center Reproductions Dragon Stamps – 1954 In 1954, the Japan Stamp Center in Tokyo produced a series of Dragon forgeries from engraved dies. The same dies were used for the mon stamps and...
by Lois Evans | 2021 Dec 5 | Dragon Stamps
Reproductions – 100th Anniversary of Japan’s First Stamps (1871) Dragon Reproductions – 100th Anniversary (1971) 1971 Presentation Items – Engraved and Offset-Lithographed – First Dragon Issues Engraved Sheet Early in 1971,...
by Lois Evans | 2021 Nov 30 | Dragon Stamps
Official Dragon Reproductions Dragon Reproductions The 1896 Official Reproduction of the 1872 1 sen & 2 sen Dragon Stamps Five hundred copies were produced for mounting in the book, Dai Nippon Teikoku Yubin Kitte Enkakushi. Subtitled in English...
by Lois Evans | 2020 Dec 10 | Dragon Stamps
Dragons: 500 Mon and 5 Sen Blue Green Genuine Issued 1871 & 1872 Scott #4 & 8 and Sakura #4 & 8. Size is 19.5 x 19.5 mm. 500 Mon, Plate 1 500 Mon, Plate 2 5 Sen – only one plate Vignette plate same as 200 mon, plate 2. Only center value new....
by Lois Evans | 2020 Dec 6 | Cherry Blossom Stamps, Dragon Stamps
Red Sankō Overprints Red Sankō Overprints At the time of the publication of the ISJP CD-ROM, the red sankō overprints had been found only on Cherry Blossom forgeries produced by Hirose. Recently, examples of these overprints were discovered on three Hirose Dragon...
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