Korea Stamp Society

Postal stationery used in Northern Korea (II): Japanese 5 sen Nanko card 1945-1947

March 31, 2021March 6, 2021 Chen Yi-Fu78Leave a Comment

Preface: This series of articles derive from discussions among several KSS member collectors. Some of them are interested in collecting Korean (and Japanese) philatelic items but feel confused in distinguishing different surcharges of early Korean postal stationeries since they cannot read Hanja and Hangul. See here for part I about the usage of these cards […]

Postal stationery used in Northern Korea (I): Japanese colonial era 1944-1945

February 3, 2021March 5, 2021 Chen Yi-Fu2054 Comments

“CENZAN*POST” Datestamp: A New Find

May 21, 2019May 19, 2019 Greg Todd735Leave a Comment

While working on a Corinphila Auction (April 2006), I was lucky enough to locate and later certify, the attached Postal Stationery card with two fine strikes of this rare mark. The late Meiso Mizuhara’s book showed, on page 18 in Postal History of Korea his recorded dates of use of this rare cancellation: May 20, […]

Unrecorded Postal Stationery from North Korea

May 15, 2019April 21, 2019 Kevin MacKeown14581 Comment

The Pyongyang published Korean Postal Stationery & Maxicard Catalogue of 1999 was an eye-opener for most of us in revealing the richness of postal stationery issued there over the years. It followed on Todd’s pioneering Catalogue of North Korean Postal Stationery 1947-1961 of 1997, and some listings in this Journal (Korean Philately, 34, No.2, 4-9; […]

Korean Postal Cards Catalogue 1900-2012

May 1, 2018November 30, 2018 Ivo Spanjersberg14092 Comments

Published in July 2012 by the Korean Postal Stationery Society (한국우편엽서회) the Korean Postal Cards Catalogue (한국우편엽서도감) lists all known postal cards starting with cards from the old Korean empire through to the present day Republic of Korea.

North Korea Postal Stationery Proofs

April 3, 2018July 7, 2018 Greg Todd1264Leave a Comment

In 1997, I published privately in a limited edition of 150 copies the Catalogue of North Korean Postal Stationery 1947-1961. This has since been somewhat superseded by the DPRK publishing their own version of this catalogue, in the process of which they, let us say, inadvertently, stole much of my information, and, indeed, some of […]

North Korea 20 Wn South Korea Occupation Postal Stationery Card

February 17, 2018July 7, 2018 Florian Eichhorn12706 Comments

(Originally from KP double number November 2012 / February 2013, Vol. 54 Nr. 4 / Vol. 55 Nr. 1) The following item sold on e-Bay on July 25, 2009, for US $961. The 5 ch Liberation South Korea postal stationery card (Figure 1) was revalued and overprinted in mid-1950 by occupying North Korea forces with a […]