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Hi Mike, I'm sorry, but the postmarks are fake... is an old confirmed fake postmark (registered as F1 of Jiamusi). This is not the only one, there were more fake postmarks used in Jiamusi around. How to tell... well, there are many fake covers with this postmark around and this postmark was never fo...

This postmark from Lungchow is super fake...

Hello! Can someone confirm the dates about the block of Harbin for the whole postage services?

Clear to see the stamps have a fake perforation.

Even with such good scans you are not able to differ the reprints with originals. That's bit "awful" You just rejected and returned a fine original stamp to the eBay seller. Maybe your eyes can't see this clearly so I made a 200% scan for you and add some arrows (left original / right the reprint), ...

The fake was sold for 686 USD. Around 50% of market value and 100% too much for this worthless shit.

Here is another dangerours fake (chemical removed postmark and overprint): https://www.ebay.de/itm/P-R-China-1950-Sc-30a-China-SC2a-Unissued-Without-Surcharge-MLH-CV-1200-00/264184110400 The eBay seller who try to cheat is this time "yhan902" from USA. Maybe something you can mention in next Clipper...

I'm really wondering, why nobody ever noticed, Kerr 131 was issued in Longzhen (龍鎮) under the jurisdiction of Bei’an (北安) and not Longjing (龍井)? Both towns have a distance of more than 1.000 km. Somewhere earlier I wrote I have already a long list of towns which were wrongly located by Kerr, that's ...

Maybe this page helps: https://philachina.org/chinese-peoples-political-consultative-conference-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E4%BA%BA%E6%B0%91%E6%94%BF%E6%B2%BB%E5%8D%94%E5%95%86%E6%9C%83%E8%AD%B0%E7%B4%80%E5%BF%B5 The scan of the stamp is very bad. Looks like reprint, but the scan is such bad, part of it is ...

HI archiem,

that's very interesting information! Do you have any download link for me about the PVC research?

Kind Regards,

Roman