sun yat-sen China $100 carmine 1945 MH |
1946 Dr Sun Yat-sen $100 carmine China MH
Text: 100$ China
Condition: MNH
Title: Dr.
Sun Yat-sen
Face value: 100
Stamp Currency: $ Chinese
Country/area: China
(1866-1925)
Year: 1946-12
Set: 1946 Dr. Sun Yat-sen
Stamp number in set: 1
Basic colour: Dark Carmine
Exact colour:
Usage:
Definitive
Type: Stamp
Theme: Dr.
Sun Yat-sen
Stamp subject: Dr. Sun Yat-sen
NVPH number:
Michel number: IM 695
Yvert number: CN 544
Scott number: 640
Stanley Gibbons number: 889
Printing office:
Perforation: L 14
Size:
Watermark:
Paper:
Printing: Recess
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Dr. Sun Yat-sen
Eighth issue
The eighth issue is easily recognized
since it is the only issue in which the tablet containing the Arabic numeral
value is centered at the bottom of the stamp. Appearing in December 1945, this
is the first of these Sun Yat-sen issues to be produced after the Japanese
surrender when the two Chinese factions could abandon their uneasy alliance and
get back to the business of fighting each other. This series was produced by
Chongqing's Central Trust Bureau Printing Works, which was now renamed the
Central Engraving and Printing Works. The series was typographed on white wood
free paper. The printing still has a crude appearance and the perforations with
small holes are often rough. The six values in this set, $20.00, $30.00,
$40.00, $50.00, $100.00 and $200.00 reflect the growing inflationary problems
of the time. A number of overprinted issues were also produced.
On 1948-08-20 the Gold Yuan replaced the
Chinese National Currency at the rate of 1 Gold Yuan for 3,000,000 CNC dollars.
This gave rise to a confusing number of overprinted stamps of the previous
issues. By the time the new stamps appeared on the first day of 1949 inflation
was still rampant, and three versions of this stamp were soon produced in Shanghai.
The stamps engraved by the Dah Tung Co. came in nine values from $1.00 to
$1000.00. This was followed by a $10.00 and a $20.00 engraved value from
Central Trust Since lithographed stamps could be produced more quickly, a set
of 12 lithographed stamps from the Dah Tung Co. with values from $50.00 to
$100,000 soon appeared as did a fourth lithographed product from the Hwa Nan
Printing Press of Chongqing with eight values from $50.00 to $500,000.
In April 1949 The Gold Yuan in turn
collapsed and was replaced by the Silver Yuan. This resulted in a new
lithographed printing from the Hwa Nan Press in Chonqing with nine values from
1 cent 500 cents. This set was the last Sun Yat-sen stamp issued before the
division of China. The Gibbons catalogue treats this second issue as the
fourteenth Issue.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen
The end of the conflict brought little
respite to the Nationalist government, which continued to struggle with
Communist forces. But they were able to issue commemoratives to remember
President Lin Sen, who had died in 1943, to mark the October inauguration of
Chiang, and to celebrate the Allied victory.
Inflation had been creating a need for
ever-higher values throughout 1945, but in 1946 things went out of control;
stocks of stamps, some dating back to 1931, were surcharged with values up to
$2000, and a new design (still featuring a portrait of Sun Yat-sen) went up to
$5000.
1947 saw a number of commemorative
issues, and further inflation, a Sun Yat-sen with plum blossoms issue reaching
$50,000 that year, then surpassed in 1948 with reissues topping out with a
$5,000,000 stamp.
In 1948, a gold yuan standard was
adopted, and an assortment of existing stamps were surcharged with values from
1/2c and up. This was a short-lived stopgap, and by early 1949 it became
necessary to stamps and overprints with a range of values, again going up to
$5,000,000.
On 1 May 1949, the government took a
desperate step, which was to print undenominated stamps, sold at the daily rate
of the yuan. They then adopted a silver yuan standard, and overprinted still
more stamps as well as reissuing the Sun Yat-sen design valued in 1-500 cents.
By August, the deteriorating political situation had caught up with the postal
system, and the Nationalists' last issues on the mainland were two of a planned
series of pictorial designs denominated in silver yuan