In a message dated 10/27/2003 4:05:40 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Anyone else seeing screwy timestamps like this? Timestamps, no. Screwy Chinese postal stamps, yes. Long time collector, now mostly lapsed. For four decades, it seems that the Chinese Postal Service never required its employees to read English. There are some wonderful cancelation errors. SHEKIANG Can't find a S? It becomes 2HEKIANG PEKING (2) can become PEKING (S) or the two can be inverted. Then in the late 1940s, I think the communists were sending mail through the Nationalists postal system. Why else would a single cancel have both an inverted A and a backwards N. You cannot insert an N backwards. The entire cancel must have been forged. This has nothing to do with all of the forged overprints to try to fool the Chinese government, the local government, the Japanese occupation, or the poor confused collectors. William Taylor -------------------- Lapsed CSS 1609 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
