Heilongjiang Province (黑龍江省) Local Issue, Mingshui (明水)

Mingshui (明水) – Date of Liberation: 15 August 1945, first commissioner Zhao Shusen (趙樹森)

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1st stamp issue (Kerr 140.5-6 + unlisted):

Provisional Issue:	Stamps Overprinted "Chinese Post Temporarily Used for" and Surcharged
Issued:	April 1946
Issued by:	Mingshui Postal Administration (明水郵政管理局)
Overprint	"Chinese Post Temporarily Used for" and Surcharged ("中華郵政 暫作" 改值郵票)
Overprint method:	Hand-overprinted with wooden chop
Currency:	Northeast Currency (東北幣)
Not all stamps of this issue shown here.

Bogus stamps similar to this issue (Kerr 140.7-8):

Kerr listed the 1 元 / 10 分 unused (Kerr 140.5-6), but I have doubts this stamp exists. Anyhow the 1 元 / 10 分  (used) and some unlisted stamps were regular issued, all others are bogus. A different overprint was used for the other stamps. Good to see if you compare genuine used stamps with the very similar bogus overprint, for example 1 元 / 13 分 (Kerr 140.6) with 1 元 / 6 分 (unlisted) and 1 元 / 10 分 (genuine overprint):

Trade Prices 2019 (USD)			(★)	⊙	Kerr Cat. No.	Remarks
1 元 / 6 分 ●	blackish orange red	K13	--,--	60,00	--	engraved
1 元 / 10 分 ●	rose red	K13	--,--	50,00	140.5-6
5 元 / 13 分 ●	blackish brown	K13	--,--	100,00	--
Set of 3			--,--	210,00

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Remarks:
– All shown sets exists (at least some stamps of each set) genuine used on domestic covers.

Not shown:
– Kerr 140.1-4: Set is unknown to be genuine used, possible not issued / bogus
– Kerr 140.7-8 (probably 140.5-6 unused as well): Stamps are unknown to be genuine used, possible not issued / bogus (see above).