Japanese (possible revenues?)

[guyana1230]

I have 6 Japanese stamps I haven't been able to identify, if anyone can help it would be great

first two are a green 1 sen and a brown 5 rin (never heard of a rin before)

[guyana1230]

next two come from the same set a 2 sen green and 10 sen red

[guyana1230]

and the last 2 are a 1 sen orange-yellow and a 10 ? green that looks more like a saving stamp (I'm only guessing it is Japanese by the style)

[darkormex]

guyana1230, I believe all except the green flower pot stamp are telegraph stamps. I have a couple myself. I no longer have a Japan catalog so cannot give you more details but Philatarium may be able to help.

[guyana1230]

I have a 2003 Sakura Catalogue but it only lists 10 telegraph stamps and they all have telegraph in english in the design

[Philatarium]

I'm not sure about the last one (the green one with the flower pot), but the others are older Japanese revenues, probably of modest value. (The Sakura only shows telegraph stamps, but for others there's a different catalog, the Shimomura (or what I think might be its successor, the Fukuya).)

There's a pretty good website from the Scandinavian Society for Japanese Philately.  It's not complete, but shows a lot of the different types of Japanese revenues and is better than anything else out there online that I know of. Here's a link to the English version:

eng.ssjp.dk/rev/eng/rev/overviewrev.html

As for the green flower pot stamp, I don't believe that that's even some kind of small municipal Japanese revenue stamp, because there would at least usually be some kind of name of the government bureau for which it was issued. Maybe from PRC or Taiwan? (That's just an uninformed guess.) If you could crop the jpg to just the image of that stamp, you could run a Google image search on it and see if that yields any results. (I could do that for you later on in the day.)

As for the rin, it was 1/10 of a sen, which was 1/100 of a yen, and there were a handful of definitive postage stamps issued in rin. (I think usually 5 rin.)

Hope that's a little bit helpful!

-- Dave

[guyana1230]

Excellent site Philatarium I have now identified all bar the flowerpot one, Thank you very much