12Sen ID Chart

• KIKU crest size and details
• size and shape of "balon montee"
• corner "Sn/"
• oval kanji characters

first Plate 24 Wada is actually Maeda , who produced all lithos...

FAKE CANCELS

25Sen ID Chart

note "extended E" in ISJP  group, error design color

1 Yen ID CHART

• note size of postal bells in corners
• VERMILION is a key to fakes.  EURO origin
• sen value box
• shape of kiku petals

4Sen ID Chart

I have been sortiing 4sen kobans according to chart shown.

• TORRES = MOENS
•  a difficulty is that designs are very close - 
• compare MK and WK - MOSCHKOW vs WADA
• KIKU crest is key separator
• then look to corner S and 4 vars ...
• simple or double frame lines ...
• using a pixel ruler that floats over page, one can see lower set values for some positions .  also look if frame lines ar
  e 1-2 ...

Value     Sum  Percent

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U          24   37.50%

TORRES     20   31.25%

IJPO       11   17.19%

SENF        5    7.81%

MOSCHKOW    2    3.13%

LENEGRE     1    1.56%

WADA        1    1.56%

                      

TOTAL      64  100.00%

10sen ID Chart

note size varsiation

EURO fakes

 

15sen ID Chart

• TORRES illustrated all euro fakes
• JAPAN   IJPO Maeda Wada 

45sen ID CHART

 

30sen ID chart

SEN variations; flower details; kanji vars

1sen ID Chart

3Sen ID CHART

• NOTE WOODWARD example ... rare
• D11 as Maeda

SHADES / PLATE ERRORS

5sen ID CHART

 

6Sen ID chart ...

N.B. Kanji errors in EURO facsimiles ...

EURO signed facsimile 2019 from Hungary.  6 and S resemble LeNegre type - artist unknown ...



  1877   Postal volume increased year by year. Printing using hand-engraved plates was no longer able to keep pace with the demand for stamps. Under the guidance Edoardo Chiossone, an Italian, who was invited by the mint, stamps were produced using the new method of relief printing.
The stamps are commonly known as the 'Small Coin stamps,' for the picture in the center of the design. These were used for many years, from 1876 to 1899, and were the first stamps to have the words 'Refined edition,' indicating the production method, printed on the bottom of the sheet.

Introduction ...

ISJP study is based on Wilhelmsen cataloging plates and makers. I have been solving some of weaknesses in category. Meiji woodblock was skillful, . Copper plate and  photo-lithographs followed..   sekihan

MAEDA  surpasses WADA as maker of koban litho facsimiles.  postcards and playing cards were bulk of his trade.   Spiro - a look back.... my view MAEDA is SPIRO.

all but 1 5x5 koban sheets sourced to Japan... the Aachen 5rin was acquired in Germany ...

In recent times , Gerhard Lang-Valchs  introduced me to PR TORRES of Spain.  so I began researching classic albums and catalogs of europe. increasingly more TORRES fakes are emerging ...

 Maeda-Spiro mystery

 

investigations have shown - stamp packets are more predominant ... illustrations or unused fakes  >  cancelled packet fakes  roots of philately  begin with facsimiles .  TORRES values to search below.

• classic albums of europe yielded koban illustrations. SENF offered steel engraved  facsimiles = these form basis for fakes ,  I have merged these in ID charts
• TORRES .early woodblock and litho imperfs are beyond the ISJP 2003 CD on forgeries.  illustrations bear cancels as fakes  from illustration  .> album catalog > cancel > stamp packet
• both OK and NK litho fakes derived from MAEDA KB4 and D11 underprints ... 
• MAEDA-Spiro koban  botas are scarce , implying sold as packet singles ...  Not 1 Spiro sheet has surfaced.

readers are urged to send scans of unusual collection items for inspection .   I am reviewing my archives and streamlining by topic and designers... StampCat database is constantly changing, so edits are inevitable to posts ...  use keyword search box . CTL+ will enlarge images ...

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