Postage Stamps used in the German Marshall Islands
Stamp Identifier -- Step 4
by Dirk H.R. Spennemann

Please follow the prompts provided to identify the stamp

  • Stamp with Yacht image motif
  • Stamp with overprint
  • Overprint is red oval seal

    • Japanese occupation items

    Following the occupation of Jaluit by Japanese forces at the beginning of World War I, the German stamps were demonetised and destroyed. A number of German stamps were overprinted with the personal seals (chops) of Japanese officers. These are philatelic creations and not proper stamps.

    See here for details


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