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Asia/China : China Confusion

 

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Newfydad

27 Jul 2016
12:19:36am
I'm a confused newbie here and I hope somebody can help a bit. I'm trying to combine pages and stamps from four albums/collections into one and put them in some sort of logical order.

I have pages (with stamps) headed CHINA, CHINA (PEOPLES REPUBLIC), CHINA (REPUBLIC OF) and CHINA-FORMOSA along with several hundred loose Chinese(?) stamps.

Are these four "China" categories, by convention, normally treated as separate entities for philatelic purposes or are they usually just lumped into one "China"? And if separate entities, is there any relatively easy way to tell which entity a stamp belongs to?


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ikeyPikey
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27 Jul 2016
12:43:53am
re: China Confusion

https://www.chinastampsociety.org/ ... the China Stamp Society

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JF0505

27 Jul 2016
01:33:09pm
re: China Confusion

You have not picked an easy area to collect or catalog.
This is a general list but there is also Macao, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Treaty Ports and many others

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Scott catalog is not great
Gibbons China Specialized is better
Michel Specialized is quite good but German
Ma's Illustrated for pre 1980 is the one I mainly use - English
Chan's is also quite good
and the above China Stamp Society has a catalog but I cannot comment on it


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Newfydad

11 Aug 2016
07:05:05pm
re: China Confusion

Back in town. Just want to thank all who helped alleviate my confusion with Chinese stamps. I can see there is a fair amount of work ahead (if a hobby can be called 'work'), but now I at least have some direction. Again, thank you all.

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Jansimon
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12 Aug 2016
02:42:30am

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re: China Confusion

Imperial China often has English wording on the stamps: Imperial Chinese Post or something like that.
Republic of China (before civil war and later Taiwan): 中華民國 (Note the character that vaguely looks like a capital R)
People's Republic of China (PRC / Mainland China): 中华人民共和国 (Note the inverted V character)

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SWH
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12 Aug 2016
03:11:06am
re: China Confusion

I have written a number of country profiles that might be of use in trying to understand Chines postal history. Please refer to http://www.stampworldhistory.com/country-profiles-2/asia/china-empire/ and subsequent profiles.

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Newfydad

27 Jul 2016
12:19:36am

I'm a confused newbie here and I hope somebody can help a bit. I'm trying to combine pages and stamps from four albums/collections into one and put them in some sort of logical order.

I have pages (with stamps) headed CHINA, CHINA (PEOPLES REPUBLIC), CHINA (REPUBLIC OF) and CHINA-FORMOSA along with several hundred loose Chinese(?) stamps.

Are these four "China" categories, by convention, normally treated as separate entities for philatelic purposes or are they usually just lumped into one "China"? And if separate entities, is there any relatively easy way to tell which entity a stamp belongs to?


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ikeyPikey

27 Jul 2016
12:43:53am

re: China Confusion

https://www.chinastampsociety.org/ ... the China Stamp Society

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"I collect stamps today precisely the way I collected stamps when I was ten years old."
JF0505

27 Jul 2016
01:33:09pm

re: China Confusion

You have not picked an easy area to collect or catalog.
This is a general list but there is also Macao, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Treaty Ports and many others

Image Not Found

Scott catalog is not great
Gibbons China Specialized is better
Michel Specialized is quite good but German
Ma's Illustrated for pre 1980 is the one I mainly use - English
Chan's is also quite good
and the above China Stamp Society has a catalog but I cannot comment on it


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Newfydad

11 Aug 2016
07:05:05pm

re: China Confusion

Back in town. Just want to thank all who helped alleviate my confusion with Chinese stamps. I can see there is a fair amount of work ahead (if a hobby can be called 'work'), but now I at least have some direction. Again, thank you all.

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Jansimon

collector, seller, MT member
12 Aug 2016
02:42:30am

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re: China Confusion

Imperial China often has English wording on the stamps: Imperial Chinese Post or something like that.
Republic of China (before civil war and later Taiwan): 中華民國 (Note the character that vaguely looks like a capital R)
People's Republic of China (PRC / Mainland China): 中华人民共和国 (Note the inverted V character)

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SWH

12 Aug 2016
03:11:06am

re: China Confusion

I have written a number of country profiles that might be of use in trying to understand Chines postal history. Please refer to http://www.stampworldhistory.com/country-profiles-2/asia/china-empire/ and subsequent profiles.

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