 #301 |
I have a couple in this set which have this same overprint, and I'd love to know the story
Posted by Mike Allen on 1 July 99 |
ANSWERS:
Without the overprint this is SG128, Michel 106, issued 1898. In 1899 this set was
overprinted with various scroll-like control marks in attempt to prevent stolen stamps
being used postally, the 4 kran being SG144. According to the Michel catalogue, such
stamps overprinted "PP" (Postes Persanes), as in your example, were not issued. | |
 #302 |
I have a couple different ones like this. Are they an unissued set or what?
Posted by Mike Allen on 1 July 99 |
ANSWERS:
I presume this is an essay or from an unissued set c.1909-12, when stamps of face value
26 chahi were in use. The colour corresponds to the issued sets of this period. The
rectangular overprint around the edges of this stamp may have been applied to prevent
its postal use.
This is one of a series of so-called unissued stamps of Persa. They date from before 1914 and are very similar to the lovely
Coronation stamps with gold and silver edges of this period. The first set has ten values with portraits of various Shahs,
each bi-coloured with gold edges. These low values (1ch to 24ch) are upright and have the same frame designs as your
illustration. The nine high values (1Kr to 50Kr) are horizontal, bi-colored and show various views, and have gold edges.
This same set also appears with "SERVICE" overprint in red. They also exist with inverted centres. The second set, as per
your illustration comprises ten values (1ch to 26ch) in this design and eight values in horizontal format but similar design
(1Kr to 30Kr), all bi-colored with gold edges. For a "SERVICE" set, the first ten values were overprinted in red and the
edges made silver instead of gold. The horizontal frames of the eight high values were used but with a building for centre
instead of the lion. They also had silver borders and red "Service" overprint. All values again appear with inverted centres.
At best, these can only be described as a speculative issue but they are superbly printed and form an attractive addition to
any collection. | |
 #303 |
It's got the Persian emblem, but what is it?
Posted by Mike Allen on 1 July 99 |
ANSWERS:
This is a famine relief 1 chahi obligatory tax stamp from March 1918. One of these stamps had to be affixed to every letter or newspaper, the proceeds going to famine relief. It is not in Gibbons simplified catalogue but is in the Central Asia specialized catalogue (I don't have a recent edition to hand, and it has been renumbered since the edition I have - you can easily find it from the date. In Michel it is no.9 under "Zwangszuschlagsmarken". | |
 #304 |
Another Iran. I really like this one, the background is made from the veins of a leaf!
Any ideas?
Posted by Mike Allen on 1 July 99 |
ANSWERS:
This seems to be a charity tax stamp (possibly hospital tax), pre-1932
(when the currency changed). The face value (in the circle above the lion) is 10
chahi. I can't make out the lower inscription (the last word [i.e. on the left] may
be "Iran") but it is clear enough to be easily read by a Farsi speaker. | |
 #305 |
I seem to have accumulated six of these, each having a different colored toned paper.
Anyone know the story?
Posted by Mike Allen on 1 July 99 |
ANSWERS:
Obviously a Teheran local post stamp, which I assume dates from World War I. I don't
have access to any catalogues which list such local issues, but I'm sure they must exist.
Check out Rick Scott's Unidentified Philatelic Objects site for another comment about this stamp (look for #126). | |
 #306 |
I'd like to know what "renta interior" is for. The JALISCO overprint is cool.
Posted by Mike Allen on 1 July 99 |
ANSWERS:Renta Interior means Internal revenue. The Jalisco overprint is the name of a state in Mexico. These overprints occur on almost every Internal Revenue stamps of Mexico.Leo Bakx (31 Oct 99) | |
 #307 |
I guessed that the use of "PESO" makes it from Mexico, but it declares "PROVINCIA de SANTA FE". My limited geographical knowledge places Santa Fe in "New Mexico", but what do I know?
Posted by Mike Allen on 1 July 99 |
ANSWERS:I think that this is not Mexico but Argentina -- Mexico has states, not provinces, Argentina does in fact have a province named 'Santa Fe', most of the west bank of the Parana river, upstream from Buenos Aires.Paul Hartman (13 Sep 99)
Stamp 307 is certainly from the Goverment of the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is a numbered fiscal stamp without any postal use. | |
 #308 |
I had to enlarge this as it only about the size of that Victoria stamp from 1874 or so. I believe it says: SALUBRIDAD PUBLICA
Posted by Mike Allen on 1 July 99 |
ANSWERS:This is a Mexican revenue stamp of the "Departamento de Salubridad Publica" of 1928; at the moment 3 values are known to me 2c yellow-green, 5c brown and 10c black.Leo Bakx (31 Oct 99) | |
 #309 |
He/She has arms spread out mimicking the eagle above and below him/her.
The top eagle looks to the right, while the lower one looks to the left.
There is script at the top: ?cha, an overprint: RAVON, and a line canceling
through the bottom attachment. I'm curious what "TALON" means.
The only definition I know refers to an eagle's claw; could there be a connection?
Posted by Mike Allen on 1 July 99 |
ANSWERS:
I can't help much with this one - is it perhaps an mexican fiscal - except to say that "talón" in Spanish can mean "counterfoil", which is appropriate here. The lower portion was probably torn off and stuck on a receipt when the tax had been paid by the upper portion (rather like the Italian parcel stamps).
This item is a 1896 Renta Interior stamp. These stamps were perforated through the middle.
One half was used on the document and the other half (the talon) was affixed to the stub.
Starting from the 1892-93 issue all Renta Interior stamps have talons.
RAVON is probably part of the name of a mexican state or a pricate company overprint.
The overprint on top and bottom (line) are not known to me but are probably cancellations.
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 #310 |
Stamp or revenue? And from which country? Egypt maybe?
Posted by Stefano Adinolfi on 8 July 99 |
ANSWERS:
The upper inscription reads "Kingdom of Egypt". I presume it is a revenue stamps from about the 1930s. Sorry I can't read the bottom inscription, which no doubt indicates the exact purpose of the stamp.
This is an Egyptian revenue. I checked Peter Feltus' "Catalogue of Egyptian Revenue Stamps" (1982). He lists it on p. 48 as # 431, "The
Third Citadel Issue," 1938. "Lithographed by the Survey Dept. of Egypt.
Inscribed el dawlah el masriya (The Egyptian State) above and iradat
maliya (Fiscal Revenues) below. . . It was issued in sheets of 50 with control
numbers at lower right. One set of imperforate corner blocks of four has
survived from the Palace Collection; both values show control number
A/38." There is also a 400m. blue-green issue.
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