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Chinese Provinces
1915 - 1933
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Chinese Provinces | 1-4 |
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Sinkiang |
Yunnan |
Manchuria |
Szechwan |
| 1915 Sc SG1 |
15th August 1926 Sc SG1 |
18th March 1927 Sc SG1 |
1933 Sc SG1 |
| Chinese Provinces, all stamps of China overprinted, all perf 14, no wmk | ||||||||
| State | Description | Seq | FI | Sc | SG | Mi | Y&T |
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| Manchuria † | ½ c sepia | 3 | 557 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Sinkiang ‡ | ½ c sepia | 1 | 454 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Szechwan | 1c bright orange-yellow | 4 | 568 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Yunnan | ½ c sepia | 2 | 555 | 1 | 1 | |||
† Gibbons subdivides Manchuria between 1927 Kirin & Heilungchangand and a 1946 entry for North-Eastern Provinces.
‡ Both Scott and Gibbons list two sets: 1915 with the first character of the overprint misaligned, 1916 aligned.
In the first half of 20th century, internal unrest was caused by growing communist factions that eventually took power after WW2 but in the meantime give rise to fragmented and localised postal services.
There is broad agreement between Gibbons and Scott on the listings: Manchuria (1927), Sinkiang (1915), Szechwan (1933) and Yunnan (1926) .
In all four cases, Gibbons cites financial problems as the reason for the separate issue, the local currency losing value against standard silver coinage.