STAMP packets and market growth in Meiji Japan

 

In Japan, Kotaro Wada was only supplier of copper-plate facsimiles... Maeda Kihei produced all litho-koban -  including spiro group. original woodblock masters could be multiplied faster by lithography. tourist sheets booklets albums and stamp packets followed ...  Both produced  pricelists of their items.       WADA placed ads in UK but was banned from doing so by Pemberton.   Stanley Gibbons visited Yokohama shops after selling his business in London.   He likely was interested  in Maeda and Wada

dealers and wholesalers exported abroad ...  the facsimile makers led sellers of genuine Japanese issues. globally scarcity is what drove philatelic market and knowlegebase.   the Paris worlds fair sold 50000 tourist sheets (Gely)  London Exhibition  more ...Wada sunami ...

IJP sold remainder sheets @ 15% face value

rate change

Yoshizawa & Co. Price-List of Japanese Postage Stamps, Cards and Rrappers 

ex Florian Eichhorn collection

gauranteed genuine ... scarcity shown in table below

H A RAMSDEN  also made tebori facsimiles and packets. these are 12X9 matrix sheets either unused or

negative cross , kiban cancelled.  dealer Jun Kobayahawa, in Yokohama  unkown if he made koban sheets ?

In europe, TORRES of Spain illustrated most of classic albums and journals of the time.  I am still finding koban fakes,  based on album designs + cancel forms.    so lots to search for ...  design change over time - crude to superb.