Used from 1875 - 1885, Meiji 8 - 18, in Yokohama, Nagasaki, Hiogo, Tokei (Tokyo) and Hakodate.
1n1: Foreign Mail Postcard 3 Sen, 1879 issue,
FC5 from Nagasaki via Yokohama to Achen (Aachen), Germany.
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1n3: Cover with old Koban 5 Sen issued in 1876,
from Nagasaki via Yokohama and San Francisco to Indianapolis,
Indiana
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1n4: Foreign Mail Postcard 3 Sen, 1879 issue, FC5 from
Nagasaki to Copenhagen, Denmark.
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1n5: Cover with 5 Sen old Koban from Nagasaki via
Yokohama and San Francisco to Philadelphia.
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1n6: Cover with 5 Sen UPU Koban from Nagasaki via Yokohama to U.S.A.
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1h1: Old Koban 5 Sen, brown
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1h2: Old Koban 2 Sen, olive
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1h3: Cover with 5 Sen old Koban (very wide border on the
left), from Hiogo via Yokohama to New York.
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1h4: Foreign Mail Postcard 3 Sen green, 1879 issue, FC5
From Hiogo via Hong Kong to Stuttgart in Germany
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1h5: Foreign Mail Postcard 3 Sen green, 1879 issue, FC5, from Hiogo to
Stade in Germany.
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1t1: Cover with a pair of 5 Sen old Koban stamps from Tokyo
via Yokohama and San Francisco to Chicago.
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1t2: Cover from Tokyo to Millerstown, PA, with a 5 Sen
old Koban stamp.
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1t3: 3 Sen Foreign Mail Postcard from Kofu, Kai via Tokyo, Yokohama
and San Francisco to Detroit, Michigan, USA.
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1pa1: Cover from Nagasaki to Hiogo with a pair of 2 Sen old Koban
stamps. A domestic letter with a 4 Sen postage?
Dating the letter: John. G. Bishop records 1876. 8. 25 as the latest usage of the single line PAID ALL mark. The 2 Sen olive Koban stamp was issued on 1876. 5. 17. The Nagasaki cancel reads JUL 14. Mr. Swenson reports 3 findings of the single line PAID ALL marking between 1875. 03. 01 and 1875. 08. 25. The latest, just as mine, was from Nagasaki to Hiogo. The Hiogo Early Large Single Circle type C3 is known from 1876. 12. 09 till 1882. 04. 04. My guess: the Nagasaki cancel has to be from 1876. 7. 14, which means that Mr. Swenson erred with 1875. 08. 25 and that the Hiogo cancellation already had been in use before 1876. 12. 09. The PAID ALL markings are a part of the Early Single Circle chapter in both the Bishop and the Swenson monographs and I therefore add them here myself too. According to Mr. Swenson only three different examples have been recorded from Nagasaki and I herewith add number 4 since his discriptions do not fit my cover. The PAID ALL mark was required for mail to or through the United States (U.S.-Japan postal convention of 1873. 08. 03). On this domestic letter neither the Paid All mark nor the Roman letter Nagasaki cancellation and the Hiogp receiver mark normally applied to foreign mail make sense. The way of writing on the cover is not Japanese but Chinese. The name of the receiver (Chen) is a typical Chinese family name and I therefore assume that a Chinese trader in Nagasaki mailed this letter to a collegue in Kobe (Hiogo). Did the Japanese postoffice regard mail posted by foreigners as foreign mail even with a domestic destination? There is a red handstamp with Roman letters Hiogo and Chinese characters for Kobe on this cover. The red is slightly different from the Paid All mark and I therefore assume that this handstamp is a private one.
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