ISSUE 162 - June 7, 2024 - Stamp News Online Magazine
The Stamp Specialist:
United States Postal Agency, Shanghai
(From The Stamp Specialist Mahogany Book, published in 1947, with some images added)
By Harvey Bounds
Nearly every collector who is at all familiar with United States stamps knows that this country in 1919 and 1922 issued stamps overprinted for use in Shanghai, China, but not nearly so many know the facts leading up to their issuance, nor why they were discontinued after only three years in use.
The writer, in cooperation with the late Robert F. Brinton of West Chester, Penna., made quite a study of this . . .
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