 #101 | I can't find this stamp anywhere.
Posted by Casper on 05/05/98
#101. The design and printing quality look like Taiwan
circa 1950 but nothing in my catalogue looks remotely like it.
#101 is a chinese stamp... that's all I know
#101 is unlikely to be a postage stamp. Neither country nor values were
printed. The chinese characters are not sharply in focus. It appears to
identify some clan or association.
No. 101 is not a stamp, and most probably it is a medicine label. On the
top read, "Shendetang of Daixin Street", and the lower strip read,
"Portrait of He Ranzhao".
This confirms the design of old Chinese drug packing design in the
Republic (and some till now) of printing the establisher's portrait and
the usage of banknote designs to prevent fakes. |
 #102 | Is this stamp
catalogued somewhere? I haven't been able to find it in my Yvert & Tellier.
Posted by Stefano on 06/05/98
#102. Almost certainly a fake, and a crude one at that. Hong
Kong never used British stamps overprinted. |
 #103 | I don't have a clue what this is, but it is no postage stamp, that is for
sure. If it did not have a cancellation I would not have posted it...
Posted by Casper on 06/05/98
No. 103 is the top half of a 1956 Belgian revenue.
It looks in many aspects (design, printing style, denomination,
cancellation, number) very similar to some stamps I have. They are from
Belgium and are so called 'taxes fiscales - fiscale taxen'. The stamps I
have are twice the size, in that case this is possibly only the top-half
of the stamp (mine are rouletted in between). I have cancellation-dates
from 1929 till 1949. No catalogue-information unfortunately.
#103 This is the upper half of a Belgium documentary revenue stamp. There exist about twenty different very extensive
series. Listed in the Barefoot catalogue on Benelux revenues.
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 #104 | Does anybody know the story behind these stamps. I know they are completely
bogus, but what organisation printed these? (I also have an orange 10 cents and a blue 50 cents)
Posted by Casper on 06/05/98
#104. Probably from South Africa commemorating something
to do with the Orange Free State. Unfortunately I don't know
anything about these labels.
I believe this Oranje Vrijstaat was an "invention" of Provo, the playful
Dutch student protest movement at the end of the 60s. One of the leaders was
Roel van Duin, who even can be recognized (with a bit of imagination) on the
stamps.
It is a local private Dutch post stamp of Amsterdam. It is listed in Dutch
local catalogue by "Studiegroep Particuliere Postbezorging". On 10th June 1970 were
issued 4 stamps with face value of 10c, 15c, 25c, 50c with the same design
as the one shown. |
 #105 Click to see this sheet bigger | I cannot find this souvenir sheet in Scott. I assume that it is one of
the local issues. I would appreciate information on its origin and
value if anybody can find a catalogue listing. Thank you!
Posted by Derrick Grose on 26/05/98
I found your spanish sheet listed in my danish 1982 AFA Vesteuropa Frimaerkekatalog
under the category "Postvaesenets Velgorenhedsmaerker" which is to say
"charity stamps" in favour of mail workers. It was issued in
1937 by the spanish republic. I found a twin issue by Spanish Morocco
in my Yvert et Tellier, its legend specifies that they were issued in
order to help orphans of the mail workers. Your sheet is listed as #35
and has a value of 140 Dkr both mint and used (a danish crown is equivalent
to roughly 300 italian Lire, a US dollar is about 1700 Lire, that means
your sheet was about 25 US$, in 1982). The same sheet, with no perforation
(#35a) is given at 2500 Dkr, while in green colour (#36) its value is even higher. |
 #106 | This might be page-material. I cannot find it in the Yvert catalogue. I
guess it is some kind of seal. Ever seen it? I wonder if the "25" has to do
with a 25-year anniversary or with value... probably the first.
Posted by Casper on 05/06/98
My guess is that it's a label. Anyway the cancel is danish (Husk postnummer! - Remember the postcode!)
I think this is a UNESCO seal which happens to have been used in
Denmark. The '25' is likely to be the 25th anniversary of UNESCO.
This is a UNESCO gift stamp and are issued to raise funds for less
developed parts of the world, The proceeds from their sale are exchanged
for Gift Coupons which are issued by UNESCO and which may be redeemed in
any country by the school, hospital, library, laboratory, or similar institution
to which help has been allocated by the Gift Coupon Fund. They have been
sold and denominated by many countries: US, France, UK, Sweden, Denmark, Japan,
Australia. The ones that I have seen were dated between 1951 and 1961. |
 #107 | Does anyone know if this is a bogus russian issue
or an official one?
Posted by Casper on 05/06/98
No. 107 was (I think) at one time listed in Michel, but it does not
appear in the latest edition. I have read somewhere that the Sankt
Petersburg issue is considered legitimate. |
 #108a-b |
I always classified these as "normal" Mexican stamps as found in the
catalogues. But now that we have this great page, I hoped that someone could
tell something about the Vera Cruz and Guadalajara overprints. I could not
find them mentioned in the catalogues I checked.
Posted by Casper on 05/06/98 |
ANSWERS:
These look like Scott #82/94 (12˘ blue) and #83/95 (25˘ red?) and there is a note that they are overprinted with
"District Name, Number and abbreviated date". With a PAPEL SELLADO
watermark they catalogue US$ 30 and US$ 24 respectively. Unwatermarked
they catalogue US$ 1.65 and US$ 2 respectively. There are also several
varieties of paper with varying values. I hope you find watermarks!
This question about overprints on early Mexican stamps is exactly the
kind of thing that makes Mexican philately so interesting - there are
literally hundreds of district overprints on the issues up to 1884. Some are
exceedingly rare (unfortunately, not the ones showed). THE DISTRICT OVERPRINTS
Mexico was divided into numerous postal districts, each with a main post
office known as an administración. The administratively dependent post
offices are called "sub-offices." Stamps were produced in Mexico City and
issued to the various administraciones in batches known as consignments, and
careful records of the quantities issued in these consignments were kept, as
was an accurate accounting of their subsequent distribution to the
sub-offices, sales and returns. These administrative structures and
procedures were not at all unusual in themselves but are rarely reflected in
a country's stamps. However, during much of the 19th century, Mexico was an
unstable country, and the postal system was prone to disruption by bandits
and anti-government factions. The overprinting of stamps with district names
and/or numbers was an unusual but effective measure taken to counter some of
these difficulties. | |
 #109 | Help me to find out about this stamp. Thanks!
Posted by Jeroen on 05/06/98
This stamp (#109) is a Russian semi-postal for Volga Famine relief. It
was issued in February 1922 and is listed in Scott as B21. Its 1998
price was US$ 0.30. |
 #110 | These are stamps I bought, but I do not remember from what region they were.
Stupid, huh? Do you know?
Posted by Casper on 05/06/98
No. 110 is one of the 1921 Wrangel Army issues, listed in Scott under
Offices in the Turkish Empire.
Russia 76 (image A15, Scott) overprinted to make R. Off. in Turk Emp 239. |
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