TYPE I
HANDSTAMPED
Vermilion overprint on Single cards, Message/Reply cards and on Severed Message and Severed Reply cards

V4c, UX4b Catalog value $100+

Issued circa March 13, 1951
Small rectangle (19-21 x 23-25mm) single-line sans-serif numerals
Printed E47,000+ and issued E43,400+

V4C (UX4b)
Single Card
Gray paper
Cancelled March 15, 1951
Naha, (Naha-shi, Okinawa-Jima)
This card is cancelled TWO days
after the approximate First Day of Issue
Issued E39,000

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(1)

TYPE I
V4C, UX4b, Catalog value $100+

V4C (UX4b)
Single Card
Gray Paper
Cancelled March 23, 1951
Yonabaru, (Yonabaru-cho, Okinawa-Jima)
Shows early use of this card.
Issued E39,000

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(2)

TYPE I

V4Ca (UX4b)
Single Card
Gray Paper
Surcharged in RED VIOLET (error)

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(3)
V4Ca, UX4b Catalog value $100+

TYPE I

V6C-B (UY4f)                              V6C-C (UY4g)
Severed Message Card                   Severed Reply Card

V6C-B, UY4f, Catalog value $150 V6C-C, UY4g, Catalog value $150

Tan Paper
20.5 x 24.5mm Frame
Issued E1,500

(4L)                                                                                                       (4R)

TYPE I




V8C
Single Card
Issued ca. April, 1951



Japanese Cherry Blossom Postal Card




V8C, noted, Catalog value $75
V8C, noted, Catalog value $75



Dark Gray Paper                                 Light Gray paper



(5L)                                                                                                              (5R)



This card has generated more controversy than any other postal stationery of the Ryukyu Islands.  In 1947 the U.S. Military Government on Okinawa purchased 70,000 of these cards to relieve an acute paper shortage.  These cards were used as Okinawa Gunto provisional postal cards and as official business postal cards.  Approximately 1000 were handstamped with the 85 Sen surcharge and “were definitely valid and were official used” according to the then Chief of the Miyako Central Post Office.