updated: 22 April 2006

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Stamp all cancelled SINGAPORE respectively: 17 Sept. 1898, 3 July 1894 and 2 Sept. 1895

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• The first character means Singapore, the second means newspaper and the third means a house, a place or a hall. The second and third characters combined means newspaper printing house. So these three characters mean Singapore newspapers printing house. The first two characters actually is the name of earliest Chinese newspaper in Singapore. The first character is the transliteration of the "lat" in the Malay word "Selat" which means Straits. [P.Q., April 2006]

updated: 22 April 2006

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• The first character might mean solid or precious. The bottom character is cut off. [P.Q., April 2006]

updated: 22 April 2006

Cancelled 1896

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• First two characters are the name of the company ? Jointly Prosperous. Third and fourth characters combined mean Company. [P.Q., April 2006]

updated: 22 April 2006

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• The first character means New, the second means Abundant or Plentiful and the third means Prosperous or Thriving. [P.Q., April 2006]

updated: 10 Nov. 2006

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• Can someone translate this?

updated: 22 April 2006

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• First two characters are a province in China known as Guangdong today. The third and fourth characters are illegible. [P.Q., April 2006]

updated: 22 April 2006

Cancelled SINGAPORE

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• The first character is illegible. The second character has several meanings: Safe, Peaceful, Extreme or Most. [P.Q., April 2006]

updated: 22 April 2006

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• The upper character means Department (under a ministry). [P.Q., April 2006]

updated: 22 April 2006

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• The first character could the second character of "revenue stamp". The second, third and fourth characters mean 26th day. [P.Q., April 2006]

updated: 22 April 2006

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• The first character is illegible. The second, third and forth characters mean 18th day. [P.Q., April 2006]

updated: 22 April 2006

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• The transliteration of Guthrie. [P.Q., April 2006]

• The same item is pictured on the "A" page of full name chops as A095 - Arthur Baker & Co. Ltd.
• The words are "Gong See" (meaning "company"). Anonymous 22 April 2006

updated: 19 June 2008

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The two cent stamp is cancelled SINGAPORE 22 May 1889

Images from the author's collection, vertical 2 cent stamp from Gaden Robinson 31 Jan. 2006

• The same items are pictured on another page as ID100
• "This is a difficult one because it is run-on. I think it should be "Tiang Lim On In Yuan & Co." Gaden Robinson 8 Feb. 2006

• This is the name of a company. The characters mean Brocade, Bright and Beautiful and Luxuriant, Exuberant or Profuse. [P.Q., April 2006]

updated: 19 Feb. 2006

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• The same item is pictured on another page as ID115

updated: 1 Jan. 2006

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• The same item is pictured on another page as ID116

updated: 15 April 2007

Middle inscription - Chinese?

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• The same item is pictured on another page as G060
• These are the Chinese transliteration of the company name. Anonymous 22 April 2006
• The Chinese characters should be read from right to left. The last two on the left mean ?company?. [Richard Hale, 15 April 2007]

updated: 1 Jan. 2006

Diagonal handstamp - Possibly an Indian language

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• The same item is pictured on another page as H210

updated: 22 April 2006

Image from Gaden Robinson 31Jan. 2006

• The characters look like 917 or 9/7. [P.Q., April 2006]

updated: 22 April 2006

Image from Gaden Robinson 31Jan. 2006

• This is probably the name of a company- "Fuk Lung". The first character means Good Fortune, blessing or happiness. The second character means Prosperous or Thriving. [P.Q., April 2006] + Anonymous

updated: 15 April 2007

• same item as Miscellaneous M011
• The character appears to be check or investigate. [P.Q., April 2006]
• The Chinese characters are, from right to left, ?Xiang Gang? (Mandarin) or ?Heung Gong? (Cantonese) ? i.e. Hong Kong but half the left character is missing. [Richard Hale, 15 April 2007]

updated: 22 April 2006

• same item as Miscellaneous M013
• These characters are the old name for ?Singapore?.

updated: 29 June 2009

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updated: 1 Feb. 2008

Image from E. Tan [Feb. 2008]

updated: 12 April 2010

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Same strip of three shown in two orientations, front & back.

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