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I have a really really old Imperial Japanese postage stamp.
Problem is, I dont know exactly how old it is, or what its value is, or even how to look it up - I did a Google, and all the websites seem to suppose you already know all about the stamp so you can look it up, and no pictures even to help the novice?
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There is a similar 2 sen imperial japanese stamp in purple on ebay for 50p
Ive done some googling and they stopped writing imperial japanese post on them in 1905.
Can't help with value, but a poster on Flickr claims it is from 1883.
try here
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/yosha...us_stamps.html
and there is a forum that deals with them
http://www.stampboards.com
I am not a Japan stamp collector, but have looked it up in Stanley Gibbons Stamps of the World
About 1876 catalogued £1.00 used.
However like all stamps there could be something special about it - the perfs, the watermark, missing character etc etc, only a specialist would know if it was special!
I think it is in the 50p to £1 range; the perforations are irregular, and the postmark is heavy, but it is over 100 years old.
It is not the kind of stamp a casual stamp collector would buy so condition is a little more important.
okay, thanks guys! I'll get it listed over the weekend and see what happens. :)