Lot# 8015

comprising single examples of 30c blue, 50c red, and 100c violet, together with two cut pieces bearing complete sets of the third issue, each cancelled by double-ring “FORMOSAN REPUBLIC / TAINAN” English datestamp. Printed in Tainan during the final days of the Republic on thinner native paper with coarser impressions, this third issue represents the last printing before the fall of the regime. The group illustrates the final stage of design, paper, and usage development of the Formosan Republic stamps, an extremely rare and historically important assembly. Ex Meiso Mizuhara Collection.