Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省) Local Issue, Keshan (克山)

Keshan (克山) – Date of Liberation: 15 August 1945, first magistrate: Yin Zhijia (尹之家)

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1st stamp issue (Kerr 102.1-15)

Provisional Issue:	Stamps Overprinted "Chinese Post"
Issued:	October 1945
Issued by:	Keshan Postal Administration (克山郵政管理局)
Overprint	"Chinese Post" ("中華郵政")
Overprint method:	Hand-overprinted with wooden chop
Currency:	Manchukuo Yuan (滿洲國圓)
All stamps of this issue shown here.

Zhujiakan (朱家坎) [Kerr 31.1-15] used a very similar overprint in black.

½ 分

1 分

2 分

3 分

4 分

5 分 ⦿

6 分

10 分 ⦿

20 分

30 分

40 分

50 分

1 元

This set used for the overprint a vertical combined chop assembled by four single chops, so you can find four different overprint impressions. I placed some yellow arrows in the scan which helps to differ the overprints Type I up to IV (please apologize the 6 分, I missed by accident the 2 分 Type I green stamp 🙂 ):

Type I up to Type IV

Trade Prices 2019 (USD)			(★)	⊙	Kerr Cat. No.	Remarks
½ 分 ●	blackish brown	K13	--,--	--,--	102.1
1 分 ●	carmine brown	K13	--,--	--,--	102.2
2 分 ●	blackish yellow green	K13	--,--	--,--	102.3
3 分 ●	blackish ochre brown	K13	--,--	--,--	102.4
4 分 ●	yellow oliv	K13	--,--	--,--	102.5
5 分 ●	oliv black	K13	--,--	40,00	102.6	lithography
6 分 ●	vermilion	K13	--,--	--,--	102.7	lithography
10 分 ●	rose red	K13	--,--	40,00	102.8-9
20 分 ●	dark ochre brown	K13	--,--	--,--	102.10	lithography
30 分 ●	blackish ochre	K13	--,--	--,--	102.11	lithography
40 分 ●	blackish oliv	K13	--,--	--,--	102.12-13
50 分 ●	blackish brown oliv	K13	--,--	--,--	102.14
1 元 ●	blackish red grey	K13	--,--	--,--	102.15	lithography
Set of 13			--,--	--,--

2nd stamp issue (Kerr 102.16-23)

Provisional Issue:	Stamps Overprinted "Chinese Post"
Issued:	November 1945
Issued by:	Keshan Postal Administration (克山郵政管理局)
Overprint	"Chinese Post" ("中華郵政")
Overprint method:	Hand-overprinted with rubber chop
Currency:	Northeast Currency (東北幣)
Not all stamps of this issue shown here.

Cover:

Cover (rate of 1 元 for domestic letter)
Cancel: 1946 (April 3), Keshan (克山). [Image source: WH]

Some bogus stamps similar to this issue (Kerr 102.16-17, 102.20, 102.22):

1 分

3 分

10 分

20 分

Only 10 分 and 20 分 (engraved) were regular issued (but same stamps exists also with bogus overprint), all others are bogus. A different overprint was used for the other stamps. Good to see if you compare 1 分 and 3 分 with 20 分 (engraved):

Green arrows point to
major differences.

Trade Prices 2019 (USD)			(★)	⊙	Kerr Cat. No.	Remarks
10 分 ●	rose red	K13	--,--	30,00	--
20 分 ●	blackish red brown	K13	--,--	40,00	--	engraved
Set of 2			--,--	70,00

3rd stamp issue (Kerr 102.24-25)

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

Cover:

Cover (rate of 1 元 for domestic letter)
Cancel: 1946 (April 2), Keshan (克山), Bei'an Province (北安省)

Cover (rate of 1 元 for domestic letter)
Cancel: 1946 (March 13), Keshan (克山)

Trade Prices 2019 (USD)			(★)	⊙	Kerr Cat. No.	Remarks
1 元 / 1 分 ●	carmine brown	K13	30,00	40,00	102.24
5 元 / 20 分 ●	dark ochre brown	K13	--,--	80,00	102.25	lithography
Set of 2			--,--	120,00

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

Not shown:
– Kerr 102.16-23: Stamps are unknown to be genuine used, possible not issued / bogus (see above).

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