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In 1948, Japan issued three
souvenir sheets that look a lot alike, especially to someone who doesn't
read Japanese or doesn't have all three in front of them.
And in the Japan section of the
Scott stamp catalog (the standard reference for collectors in the US), Scott
only illustrates one of the three, and then uses just a short description of
the other two.
It's much easier to identify
which ones you have, and which ones you need, if you could see all three
together, and knew a little bit more about how to tell the differences among
them.
So here they are:
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Scott 409:
Tokyo Communications Exhibit
(issued April 27, 1948)
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Scott 410: Aomori Newspaper & Stamp Exhibit
(issued May 3, 1948)
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Scott 411: Fukushima Communications
Exhibit (issued May 23, 1948)
I'll show you two different
ways to tell these souvenir sheets apart.
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Method
1: By Ink Color & Lines of Text
This is the easiest way to tell
#409 from the other two, because #409 is the only one printed with green
ink.
But #410 and #411 are both printed with types of blue
ink, with #410 a slightly lighter blue than #411.
But there are also two other characteristics that differ
between the two: (i) the partial border around the sheet, and (ii) the
number of lines of text in the upper-left quadrant.
The border is easy to discern once you see samples of
both, but the most straightforward characteristic to check is simply the
number of lines of text.
Now you can determine with
confidence which ones you have, and which ones you need!
There is another way to
identify these issues, if you'd like to learn how to recognize a little bit
of Japanese:
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Method
2: By City Name
The city name of the exhibition is printed at the
lower-right of each souvenir sheet:
There, now you have two different ways to determine
precisely the differences between Japan Scott #409, #410 & #411, the 1948
sampan souvenir sheets!
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