 #221 |
I have a jordanian mandate stamp that is believed to be unique. I want
to sell it , but I don't have an evaluation for it, and I hope that you
can help me.
I send you a translation of the overprints on it. On the top the overprint reads "hukumat sharqi
al-ardan" (east of jordan goverment) the first and second lines in
violet. The second overprint (third and fourth lines in
violet) reads "el-qimah ashir el qirsh" (the value tenth of piaster). The
third overprint (in black) reads"sharqi al-ardan" (east of jordan). It is
not a revenue stamp.
Posted by Neven Madian on 26 Feb 99 |
 #222 |
This stamp came to me from my Grandfathers collection, whilst obviously
Prussian the currency is in Marks not Kreuzer and I have been unable to
identify it from catalogues, am I being stupid or is it a bit different,
can anybody help?
Posted by Ian D. Armstrong on 26 Feb 99 |
ANSWERS:
This is a German state revenue from Prussia. It is listed in the Erler
catalog.
"Steuer" means "tax" probably from a tax office.
Zabrze, I believe, was the old name (and is presumably again the name) of a city
in Upper Silesia. It was changed to "Hindenburg" after WWI. | |
 #223 |
I have greatly enjoyed your page and seeing everyone else's problems. Here
are some of mine...I hope someone can help. These have come from various
sources.
Posted by Tricia Richmond on 26 Feb 99 |
ANSWERS:
#223. I have picked up these and other denoms on revenue paper from
Mainland China if my source was correct, so would want to classify
these as modern Mainland Chinese revenues. They are revenues for sure,
and all from the same issue (set). The country I am not positively sure of,
other than that they are not Korean.
These are Japanese social insurance stamps from recent times. They are listed
in the Shimomura catalog. | |
 #224 |
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are some of mine...I hope someone can help. These have come from various
sources.
Posted by Tricia Richmond on 26 Feb 99 |
ANSWERS:
#224. See answer to #223. | |
 #225 |
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are some of mine...I hope someone can help. These have come from various
sources.
Posted by Tricia Richmond on 26 Feb 99 |
ANSWERS:
#224. See answer to #223. | |
 #226 |
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are some of mine...I hope someone can help. These have come from various
sources.
Posted by Tricia Richmond on 26 Feb 99 |
ANSWERS:
#224. See answer to #223. | |
 #227 |
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sources.
Posted by Tricia Richmond on 26 Feb 99 |
ANSWERS:
#224. See answer to #223. | |
 #228 |
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sources.
Posted by Tricia Richmond on 26 Feb 99 |
ANSWERS:
#224. See answer to #223.
This is China--the mid 40's. I think this one is listed in Scott.
The characters in the round circles at the four corners of the stamps
together means "general tobacco tax".
The scan is not detailed enough, but for the writing on the top
semi-circle, I can make out "Mongolia Autonomous Region ...". So this is
some sort of tobacco revenue stamp issued by the Chinese goverment for
use in Mongolia (Mongolia, or more specifically, outer Mongolia), was
part of China until the 1950's. So this stamp is definitely before that
period.
#228:
I do have xeroxed pages of a Chinese revenue catalogue somewhere (to ID many
but not all the great wall overptints), but without looking for it, I would
say the characters match a stamp I have without a camel pictured for the
"Mongol League Autonomous Gov't.", tobacco tax-this is the puppet republic
under Japanese occupation c.1930's-40's... | |
 #229 |
I have greatly enjoyed your page and seeing everyone else's problems. Here
are some of mine...I hope someone can help. These have come from various
sources.
Posted by Tricia Richmond on 26 Feb 99 |
ANSWERS:
#224. See answer to #223. | |
 #230 |
Could you help me in determining
whether these cancellations are fiscal or maybe postal after all? I think
they are fiscal because the cancellations are oval instead of round. And for
example the three shillings stamp has a round, but blue cancel, and a
written cancellation on top of that. But if they are postal, they would be a
nice addition to my NZ collection.
here's a second one... Posted by Casper Boks on 26 Feb 99 |
ANSWERS:
#230s, I would have to say are fiscal cancels.
In regards to these four stamps, the first is indeed postal, the postmark being 'Wellington' top
line, 'Parcels' bottom line; the 2nd and 4th stamps are revenue usage, the
3rd is tricky, but my guess would be judging by the state of the cancel I
would suggest it was used for parcel post. Many early New Zealand stamps
used as parcel post have these large untidy cancels, I believe most of the
stamps from this issue are available postally used, but are obviously
worth much more than revenue usage, and again on the price scale parcel
post are worth more than revenue but less than letter postage.
I'm pretty sure the 4 stamps (Item #230) posted to the "Weird
Stamps" site are fiscally used revenue issues. They are all inscribed
"Stamp Duty", as opposed to "Postage". The cancels all "look" like fiscal cancels, and the Five
Shillings value was clearly used by the Standard Fire & Marine Insurance
Co. ... Ltd. - Otago Branch.
#230. New Zealand. The first stamp (Two Shillings) is postally
used, this is a Parcel Post postmark (and, believe it or not, less
heavy than normal - New Zealand parcel postmarks of the 1920s
were terrible things). The second stamp is fiscally used, notice
the purple ink and the handwritten date in the centre. The third stamp
is probably postally used (parcel post again) but the postmark is so
bad as to render the stamp almost valueless. The fourth stamp
is fiscally used - again, notice the purple handstamp and the
handwritten initials. Regarding your other correpondents' comments-
between about 1910 and 1926, there were no postage stamps on
sale in New Zealand of values more than one shilling, so these
stamps, and the Arms type stamps which replaced them, were
used for postal purposes right up until the late 1980s. | |
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