This book started with a generous gift by Sebastian Baldassarre of
Japanese occupation stamps to my collection on WWII at Filipinas
Heritage Library. Many occupation stamps were based on pre-war
Philippine stamps overprinted and surcharged in black by the
Japanese Administration. I became curious to know how these stamps
looked without the overprints. The more I delved, the more
fascinating the subject became. Thus this book, limited to stamps
issued by the Japanese Military Administration during the
occupation of the Philippines, together with the same stamps as
they appeared both before and after the occupation. The book lists
the stamps issued during the occupation by category and date of
first issue except the first series designed and printed in Japan.
Released on six occasions over a period of a year, they are grouped
together. Second overprintings are listed under the original
release date. Appendix I shows the stamps as issued under colonial
and Commonwealth administrations during the 1930s. Appendix II
shows stamps provisionally hand-stamped VICTORY issued in Leyte
soon after the landings in October 1944 and the VICTORY -
COMMONWEALTH stamps issued to celebrate the liberation. This book
has required much detail. All errors and omissions are mine. Most
of the stamps in this booklet are fairly easy to acquire, except
for those hand stamped VICTORY. These are hard to find and
expensive as so few were hand stamped. Fortunately, good scans are
available of all the overprinted stamps. (Roderick Hall)
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