Stamp Sleuth Investigates a Stamp Collection From Japan

[@ptrinch]

I believe the airmail stamp, being a quad engine, is a DC-4. The DC-3 was a twin engine, My first inclination was to think it was the YS-11, which was first Japanese build commercial airliner. Alas, that first showed up a decade after those stamps were released (and is also a twin engine).

[@StampSleuth]

Wow you truly know your aviation! Many thanks for watching and making a comment.

[@lucchese20]

Wonderful video. Thanks for sharing. My Japan collection is very modest but I enjoyed your video tremendously. 👏🏻 🎌

[@StampSleuth]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@rogerturner1881]

Νο, i don't collect Japan, sorry. Happy Easter next week. Our Greek Orthodox Easter is the 5th May.

[@StampSleuth]

Happy Easter to you as well, I love this time of year as it heralds the start of spring!

[@pinkgirl1x]

Well I started collecting stamps in 2022 covid times with Japanese stamps and just a few days ago I have bought 4000 Japanese stamps on paper thinking that will grow some interest on my 5 year old daughter…. 5:36

[@StampSleuth]

It worked on me. My dad started us kids when I was 5 included us in the soaking, sorting and such. After the stamps were dry he would put them face down on the table and we would each take turns picking one for our growing collections!

[@adamhuffman3354]

Great video! Yes I have many Japan issues. I particularly like the modern issues of this country! They come out with some really incredible artwork.

[@StampSleuth]

Well said!

[@johnscamardo2145]

I have ben collecting Japanese stamps for years and picking up the odd one or 2. i recently bought a large 5 lb. kilo-ware world box and also a kilo-ware mix on paper from Japan so I'm still soaking a lot of modern Japan. I'm enjoying the different colorful themes as well as the topics but wish there wasn't so many different. i did some trading and received what I thought were souvenir sheets and then perhaps mini-sheets but found out they were lottery sheets.

[@StampSleuth]

That is how I get my collections together too. Its a shame about the lottery sheets though!

[@DomainAdmin-i3r]

I have lived in Japan for 35 years and collecting Japanese stamps since a kid. I collect from the beginning through about 2010. You start out with the Scott catalog and then go to your collection. You would do well to read the catalog to learn more about the stamps instead of kind of guessing about the content. You noticed the sports stamps because they have a national sports meet, national parks series, also New Years stamps including the later lottery stamps. Most of the stamps you like are actual historical artwork by known artists. All of this is listed in the Scott catalog. Japan culture loves cute and many of the stamps are from world children literature.

[@StampSleuth]

Well... this is a great reminder for me...time is the issue!

[@Rangersly]

Japan was the first country, after Canada, that I started to collect, dedicating it it's own Lighthouse stockbook. I started my NM Japan collection in my late teens around 1980. The Shogun tv series had just came out and I was captivated by japanese culture. My Japan obsession kinda faded away over the years, and I started to divert my time and energy toward other countries and topics. So my Japan collection hasn't grown as much as the other countries I collect (Canada, USA, France, Belgium, Ukraine). The small souvenir sheet at 6:30 is a new year sheet. Japan started to emit New Year Greeting stamps in 1939, but in 1950 they started to produce those cute small sheet and have done so every year since then. I have a big collection of those.

[@StampSleuth]

Yes, I agree, Japan produces many cute and interesting stamps.

[@attylahun5462]

The beauty of Japanese postage stamps lies in their rich history, thematic variety, and attention to detail. I have few of them, but I'm slowly getting ready to build a collection.

[@StampSleuth]

I agree totally!

[@pinkgirl1x]

Well I guess 6:14 collecting U/M or both depends - I actually have all - start with ised and if I can upgrade I go with Mint. Yet just recently I started building interest on cancels as well so based on the cancel I might keep both used and Mint for some stamps- and again with time I started acquiring color essays and some issued but never circulated type of stamps as well

[@StampSleuth]

So many directions one can take in this collecting endeavor!

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Thank you for showing us your Japan collection! I do not collect Japan per se, but when one gets some Japan stamps as part of a world mix of stamps, they are always interesting. I do like the newer more recent stamps as well. Happy Easter!!

[@StampSleuth]

Thanks for watching!

[@pinkgirl1x]

My favourite series is Japanese Songs series with musical notes on it and a quite fascinating background. And actually it is the first ever set I have collected. I acquired each stamp alone and took me quite the time to find them all

[@StampSleuth]

There are quite a few to that set if memory serves?

[@gipsyjam]

With Japan during our school's exchanges my family collected the two types of stamps. Used stamps from our correspondences and mint gotten as farewell gifts. My favorite is the mints as they are almost all in complete sets as we received them.

[@StampSleuth]

How lucky to have such a great memory around stamp collecting! Many thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a comment.