 #151 | I have searched
information about this stamp in the Stanley Gibbons catalog, but I haven't found any. I guess that it was issued by the Swiss Railways. Can anyone help? Posted by Joaquim Geraldes on 24/09/98
#151 is a local stamp of the Swiss federal railways - don't know for what use - but sure non postal.
#151 This is a regular Swiss railway parcel stamp, and is not a revenue stamp.
It is to pay the dues or fee on transporting goods like mail and papers or cargo by railroad. |
 #152 | I don't know nothing about this stamp.
I have three similar stamps with overprints of town names, like
PACHUA and GUADALAJARA.
Posted by Manuel Praest on 24/09/98
# 152 is a
Mexican Documentary Revenue of 1924. The 5c is the commonest stamp of that
year. The overprints indicate the state that used the revenue, and can be collected
that way. |
 #153 | Where are such (local/privat) issues listed?
Posted by Manuel Praest on 24/09/98
About the Lineas Aereas - Iberia stamps: they are called airmail labels,
manufactured by Rieusset in Barcelona. There should be at least 9 different
ones. |
 #154 | Does this stamp
belong to one of the many spanish local issues? When was it issued?
Posted by Casper on 24/09/98
# 154 Badajoz one of six diff. colours all with 5 cts, from juli 1937 from Spanish civil war. |
 #155 | Does this stamp
belong to one of the many spanish local issues? When was it issued?
Posted by Stefano & Casper on 24/09/98
Pro Sevilla, December 1936, from the civil war in Spain. |
 #156 | I guess this kind of (pre?)cancellation is not uncommon I guess, but it is
the only one I have. Do you know if the number represents some office or town?
Posted by Casper on 24/09/98
The stamp you have listed is a precancel, but I'm not sure what the number
refers to. My catalogue lists these at 20 cents Canadian.
# 156 is a canadian pre cancel stamp. It is a city type issued for the
city of Brandon Manitoba in 1942, information found in The Official
Catalogue of Canada Pre cancels 14th edition 1983.
In the July/August 1998 issue of the French philatelic magazine "Echo de la
Timbrologie" an extensive article is published on Canadian precancels. No
less than 46 Canadian cities can be found on these stamps. |
 #157 |
I have this German Local from Niesky. Where is Niesky? I tried to use my
Geography References, but could not locate where this local is from. Can you give me more information about this item? Posted by Michael Mayo on 24/09/98 |
ANSWERS:
#157 - You can find Stadt Niesky north for Görlitz in Poland near Germany.
I can tell you that your stamps are listed by Michel catalogue for Germany in the chapter Deutsche Lokalausgaben (German local issues) 1945/46.
Niesky is a town in Oberlausitz, a region in southeast former East Germany bordering Poland and the Czech republic.
My Michel catalogue gives a pretty high value (as high as 200-300 DM) for some of the stamps issued by Niesky, depending on the color of paper mainly.
157 - Görlitz and Niesky were towns in the former OPD Breslau. At the end of
WW2, the new political boundaries resulted in these towns being cut off
from their OPD, which was now Wroclaw (formerly Breslau) in Poland. It took some time
before this region was incorporated into OPD Dresden, during which time
Görlitz and Niesky issued local stamps (both were printed in the same
shop in Görlitz). Some time later, the OPD Dresden recognized these
as official issues, the only post-WW2 locals to be accorded such status.
The various Niesky issues are differentiated by paper, gum and size of
design. | |
 #158 | Nowadays it is getting
more and more difficult to decide whether an object is a stamp or not. Take
automatic stamps for instance. They sometimes are very very close to "meters". I have just received an envelope from Ireland with this object on. What do you think: is it a stamp? Is there any catalogue taking these things in consideration? Posted by Stefano on 24/09/98
This was applied to a PARCEL. SDS means Special Delivey Services of An Post, the Irish Post Office.
The label indicates that special arrangements were made to pay the postage fee by an account with SDS
instead of fixing postage stamps or meter marks to the parcel. |
 #159 | The same question
applies to this object from Singapore. What do you
think: is it a stamp? Is there any catalogue taking these things in consideration?
Posted by Stefano on 24/09/98
#159 is not a stamp in the conventional definition of a stamp. The "PP"
stands for "Postage Paid". Government organisations, quasi-government
organisations, government-linked companies or large companies (in
effect, any entity that generates lots of outgoing mail) will have their
own postage paid envelopes. The number below the words "PP" refers to
the organisation to which the envelope belongs. |
 #160 | Without the overprint
this stamp would be the normal stamp issued by the kingdom of Yemen in 1962.
My catalogue (Yvert et Tellier) doesn't mention this stamp with this overprint (I hope you
can see it, maybe the scan is a bit too small).
Posted by Stefano on 24/09/98
#160 bears an overprint (it reads "Yemen Arab Republic") added 30 Nov 1962, during Yemen's
first year of Civil War. Several definitives of that year exist with it. The same series can also be
found ovptd. by opposition Royalist Yemen which reads FREE YEMEN/FIGHTS FOR
GOD/IMAM &/COUNTRY in Arabic & English.
While the first response was correct,
for GENUINE overprints, I believe the
overprint in the scan is a FORGERY
made to defraud collectors.
The original stamp unoverprinted stamp
was CTO with a date of 30.07.1962
but the overprint stamp was issued
in NOV 1962.
The forgeries I have seen are on old
CTO stamps and seem to originate
from Beirut, Lebanon.
Genuine overprints ( rare ) should be
collected on covers with contemporary
Yemen cancels (Nov 1963-1963). |
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