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Post by blue on Feb 20, 2023 19:57:48 GMT
Japan Scott 450-53 MNHOG - 1949 Yoshino-Kumano National Park
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Feb 20, 2023 21:31:03 GMT
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Post by Ted Talks Stamps on Feb 20, 2023 21:31:03 GMT
Little known fact: Teddy Roosevelt started Japan’s National Park system. The fact is so little known that I had to make it up. Nice fact, nonetheless.
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Feb 20, 2023 22:07:43 GMT
Post by khj on Feb 20, 2023 22:07:43 GMT
So, does that imply that Japan started the war against the US because they were jealous of the US National Park System?
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Feb 20, 2023 23:21:55 GMT
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Post by Ted Talks Stamps on Feb 20, 2023 23:21:55 GMT
Well, I heard they wanted to annex Yellowstone Natl Park.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 21, 2024 20:42:15 GMT
Japan sc 576-77, 5y New Years Day. 10y 75th Anniversary Electric Lighting in Japan. 1953. New Years Day cards are a Japanese tradition and there are special rates and stamps for cards every year. There is also the post office lottery, and small presentation sheets of the New Year stamp are the traditional 4th place award.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 23, 2024 1:55:32 GMT
I still do a lot of cooking and although I have about 200 wonderful cookbooks, I find myself constantly referring to recipes on the internet for details of an ingredient or a sauce. And it never fails, my food is bubbling on the stove, and the reference I need is BURIED in 40 column inches of garbage. Well, I cannot resist the chance to do it to you..... And I wrote all that because Greg started this thread with a set of the Japanese Nationsl Parks series, which went on for some 40 years. They happen to be one of the prime joys of philately for me. I got my first Scott catalog in 1973 or so: a 1971 vol. 3 of the International Standard. Back then all the stamps in the world fit in three thin-paged easily handled volumes bound in attractive brown leatherette. The US and possessions, UN, Great Britain AND the Commonwealth were in volume one. Nations A-I in volume two, and I had nations J-Z. I wore that book out. And I discovered the Japanese National Park sets. I had never seen the stamps in person, but I had to have some. I got my first four sets in one of the full page mail auctions that once advertised in Linn's. Now I'm happy with what I have, not nearly all but more than a few. I've bored you terribly. Let's look at some stamps. Japan 223-26, Fuji-Hakone Nat. Park, 1936, hinged, age spots.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 23, 2024 2:05:10 GMT
Japan 280-83, Nikko Nat. Park, 1938, hinged. I find a lot to like in these sets. The artwork may seem tame, but there is a wonderful consistency that goes right through the series. There is value, I like that. Not terribly expensive, but worth any dealer's time when that time comes. And most of these sets were accompanied by souvenir sheets! Oh, happy day! Well, so far I only have three sheets...
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 23, 2024 2:09:55 GMT
Japan 285-88, Dissen/Inland Sea Nat. Parks, 1939, hinged. Japan 303-06, Daisetsuzen Nat Park, 1940.
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Post by Ted Talks Stamps on Jan 23, 2024 16:01:16 GMT
I still do a lot of cooking and although I have about 200 wonderful cookbooks, I find myself constantly referring to recipes on the internet for details of an ingredient or a sauce. And it never fails, my food is bubbling on the stove, and the reference I need is BURIED in 40 column inches of garbage. Well, I cannot resist the chance to do it to you..... And I wrote all that because Greg started this thread with a set of the Japanese Nationsl Parks series, which went on for some 40 years. They happen to be one of the prime joys of philately for me. I got my first Scott catalog in 1973 or so: a 1971 vol. 3 of the International Standard. Back then all the stamps in the world fit in three thin-paged easily handled volumes bound in attractive brown leatherette. The US and possessions, UN, Great Britain AND the Commonwealth were in volume one. Nations A-I in volume two, and I had nations J-Z. I wore that book out. And I discovered the Japanese National Park sets. I had never seen the stamps in person, but I had to have some. I got my first four sets in one of the full page mail auctions that once advertised in Linn's. Now I'm happy with what I have, not nearly all but more than a few. I've bored you terribly. Let's look at some stamps. Japan 223-26, Fuji-Hakone Nat. Park, 1936, hinged, age spots. Not bored at all, Cap. I love to hear collectors' personal experiences. TTSC
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 24, 2024 2:10:21 GMT
Each National Park set was accompanied by a souvenir sheet until 1956. I mentioned that I have a few of them and here is 283a for Nikko National Park in 1939. These sheets were sold with a descriptive folder about each Park. I recall that when I was younger, Scott valued the sheets with folders, as that was how they were collected. Such is no longer the case:"Many souvenir sheets were sold with folders. Values are for sheets without folders." Well, mine have folders. I have noticed that in the Scott catalog, there is a number missing after each of the older sets. I suppose that the sheets each had numbers originally, but they were later given minor (-a) listings and the full listings were deleted.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 24, 2024 2:19:40 GMT
Before we move on with more of the National Parks series, here is sc 381a, which marked the new postwar constitution of 1947. Not a pricy sheet at all, but there are error varieties that are missing one or another of the stamp images.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 25, 2024 21:22:41 GMT
Japan sc 308-11, Kirishima National Park, 1940, hinged.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 26, 2024 20:21:17 GMT
Japan sc 315-18, Dailin and Niitaka-Arisan National Park, 1941, hinged.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 26, 2024 20:27:33 GMT
Japan sc 320-23. Tsugitaka-Taroko National Park, 1941, hinged. This and the previous set were issued in March of 1941, and they would be the last of the pre-war sets. The series resumed in April of 1949 with the Yoshino-Kumano set that Greg began this thread with.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 28, 2024 1:51:33 GMT
Japan sc 450-53, Yoshino-Kumano National Park, 1949. Greg presented this set way back at the beginning of this thread, but I have repeated it for continuity. During the course of 1951 Japan had the Senic Spots Issue, 9 pairs of stamps depicting popular sites around Japan. Although they were smaller, these stamps had the same type of artwork as the Parks series. This is the only pair that I have so far. Jaoan sc 527-28, Hot Springs and Lake Ashi in Hakone, 1951,hinged.
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