Suizhong (綏中) – Date of Liberation: 1st time 1945 (August 15) – 1945 (November 18), 2nd time 1948 (September 28)
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This map only gives rough impression about area and location.
1st stamp issue (Kerr 198.1-10, Yang NE338-347):
| Provisional Issue: | Stamps Overprinted “West Liaoning Prefecture” (1945) |
| Issued: | 1945 (September 10) |
| Issued by: | Shuangcheng Postal Administration (雙城郵政管理局) |
| Overprint: | “West Liaoning Prefecture” (“遼西專區”) |
| Print: | Hand-overprinted with rubber chop |
| Currency: | Manchukuo Yuan (滿洲國圓) |
| Valid until: | 1945 (November 17) |
All stamps of this issue shown here:
2 分 ⦿
5 分 ⦿
10 分 ⦿
20 分 ⦿
30 分 ⦿
40 分
50 分
1 元
Some more values which often only can be found commercial used called for my opinion by mistake as “unissued”:
4 分 ⦿
6 分 ⦿
12 分 ⦿
30 分 ⦿
This set is listed in all Liberated Area stamp catalogs.
Remarks:
– All shown sets exists (at least some stamps of each set) genuine used on domestic covers.
– Please be careful not to mix this set with the bogus set Kerr 121.1-14 (“LIAO SI”) with a very similar overprint! This is unfortunately a common mistake made by many philatelists, for examples Mizuhara mentioned in his catalog the stamp issue Suizhong (綏中) is Kerr 121.1-14, but exclude 2, 6, 7, 9. Bit funny … 🙂
I add here a graphics which helps to differ both sets:
Suizhong (綏中) top and “LIAO SI” bottom, the red arrows indicate the main differences. Besides “LIAO SI” has usually a much sharper impression as well, possible here was a wood chop instead of a rubber chop used.