 #351 |
"Beneficencia... Diputacion Provincial de Cadiz": what type of Spanish Charity/local is this... someday I mean to figure out what all the many various Spanish oddities I have!!
How was it used? Years used?
Posted by Paul S. Luchter on 29 October 99 |
ANSWERS:
Charity seal for the Provence of Cadiz, Spain. No. postal validity. | |
 #352 |
This stamp says "Svaz DTJ Ceskoslovanskych" at top, "35" in lower left corner and "2h" in right corner below. Three odd characters in
triangle are in the middle. What was this and when was it used, etc?
Posted by Paul S. Luchter on 28 September 99 |
ANSWERS:
This is a dues stamp from a German sports club in the Sudetenland. This
stamp pays the 2 halerzy dues for the 35th week, and was to be mounted in the
youths dues book.
Svaz ceskoslovanskych means "Union of Czecho-Slovanic",
"DTJ" is most likely an abbreviation for "delnickych telovychovych jednotek" =
"workers' sports units". The expression "Czecho-Slovanic" was used frequently
prior to the founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918. So, the stamp is most likely
pre-1918. Looks like a membership dues stamp. These were pasted into a
membership book or ID. | |
 #353 |
Would this Italian item be a fascist tax stamp, or a dues stamp? A propaganda label perhaps? It reads "5 centesimi", "Comitato Romano/per ia organizzazione/civile in caso/di mobilitazione".
What was this for? Who issued them and when?
Posted by Paul S. Luchter on 28 September 99 |
ANSWERS:
The inscription says it all. This organization raised funds by selling
these. Their purpose was defense. If you were patriotic, you would buy some of these.
An Italian Fund Raising label from the 1914-18 War. Italy had a rough time on the Northern front and hundreds of different
labels of this type exist. | |
 #354 |
Is this a Czech item or perhaps from Poland? An angel is holding a bag of toys and it reads "CS Ochrana matek a deti" at the bottom. What is this, a seal of some sort?
Posted by Paul S. Luchter on 28 September 99 |
ANSWERS:
Don't bet the farm on this, as I am figuring this out from cognates
in Russian and Serbian. The text seems to say `protection for mothers
and children', I am guessing that the CS means Czechoslovakia, but my
expertise in both Czech and Polish stamps is pretty much nil, so it
might be Polish.
The Ochrana was a charity. These labels were sold annually like
Christmas seals to raise funds.It is Czech, looks like the 1930's.
Yes, "CS Ochrana matek a deti" means "Czechoslovak
protection of mothers and children". CS was a common abbreviation for
Czechoslovak or Czechoslovakia for a long time. During the first republic
(1918-1938) , "Csl." was also very common. The stamp presumably comes from that
period. | |
 #355 |
Joseph Berger Falgendorf/Qualität verbürgt" on top and sides, below: "12 Marken 2 Hell." at bottom, and "½" in the corners, a big fly in the
middle...is this an Austrian item? A Department Store stamp of some sort? What was this for, when, etc?
Posted by Paul S. Luchter on 28 September 99 |
ANSWERS:
Bees (and/or hives) are a common motif for savings stamps.
#355 It can be a stamp for a company producing and selling Honey, because it gives a price and it guarantees on the quality
(qualitat verburgt) It was issued in Austria. | |
 #356 |
France? "Laon"/"Remparts et promenade du Nord"/"Ste. F se. de secours aux blessesmilitaires". What was this for? When?
Posted by Paul S. Luchter on 28 September 99 |
ANSWERS:
The label depicts the northern walls and walk along the top of the walls in
the town of Laon.
Nice view of Laon, where I lived for 4 years. Almost the view I had from my bedroom :-))
A French Red Cross Fund. These labels are very fully covered in Mosbaugh's Red Cross Catalogue, published by the Charity
Stamp and Seal Society of USA. | |
 #357 |
This item reads Deutscher/Schulverein/Cilli. Where is Cilli? What was this for? A schoolclub? A practice stamp for a school?
Posted by Paul S. Luchter on 28 September 99 |
ANSWERS:
Cilli was somewhere in the Sudetenland. This one is from between the
wars. The school kids sold them for the organization that supported German
schools in the Sudetenland. A lot of them were sold.
I found a Cilli in Slovenia...
Cilli was the German name for the Slovenian city
Celje, about 55 km south of the present-day Austrian border. There were
ethnic-German regions in Slovenian before WWII. I don't know, if they still
exist today. "Deutscher Schulverein" means "German School Association". Probably
an Austro-Hungarian era stamp -- i.e., pre-1918. | |
 #358 |
Yugoslavia? I think it says 100D at top, it is very small, maybe it is a savings or trading stamp? Maybe Yugoslavia? It may say "707" above the wings(?). Can you make it out?
Posted by Paul S. Luchter on 28 September 99 |
ANSWERS:
#358 might be from a toy post office. The
perfs. are similar to ones that I have seen on other examples. I don't
have a Yugoslavia catalog but perhaps you could check the design of the
mini stamp against the pictures in Scott's and seen if you can find a
match. On the other hand it might be some sort of a savings stamp, trade
stamp or even a revenue.
Just a suggestion: could the "707" also
be read as "JDZ"? And could the thing between the wings
be a railroad wheel in profile?
If yes, maybe it is a railway stamp of some sort, JDZ being
at one time (before WW II) the abbreviation of "Yugoslav
state railways" (Jugoslovenske Drzavne Zeleznice) in
Serbocroatian. | |
 #359 |
French Tunisia: a Tunisian stamp overprinted "Solidarite". What is this?
Resistance? Anti-colonial? Postage? Propaganda? What? Why? When?
Posted by Paul S. Luchter on 28 September 99 |
ANSWERS:
This stamp has been overprinted "solidarité" in 1938 by the Résidence
Général (colonial government).
When you where purchasing a ticket for a show (theater...), this stamp
was stuck on the ticket. The money collected was for a charitable
society. Source: "Les timbres de fantaisie et non officiels", by G. Chapier
(1963).
Tunisia, special tax stamp for drought relief, 1937 issue, listed in the new edition of
Donald Duston "French Colonies revenues", page E-15, #1. | |
 #360 |
One in a set of 5 I found on ebay. It was obviously issued between
1933-45 in Germany or Austria, but for what. Is it a NSDAP fiscal stamp?
Posted by Manuel Praest on 20 October 99 |
ANSWERS:
would say that this is a membership dues stamp for the
Sturmabteilung (SA) in the amount of 1.50 Reichsmark | |
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