 #371 |
Who can tell me something about these embossed cancellations (30-04-1935)
Though these pictures are confection, I found several stamps in this issue
partly red embossed, partly officially cancelled with black ink.
Posted by auxitis@xs4all.nl on 12 November 99 |
ANSWERS:
The embossed cancellations is found on postage stamps used for revenue purposes.
Most of the time you will find them on the higher values. I have them up to the $100 revenue
I believe this is a revenue cancel-it is more than a cancel, it is more like a seal.
One can exactly date when the seal/cancellation was made, the center
number will be the year, the other two day and month, thus the pictured one is 1935, April 30.
#371 The cancellation is definitely a revenue cancellation. This cancellation has the same purpose as
placing a revenue stamp. It can go up to values of 1000 pounds.
The older Barefoot cataloge is listing them. There are many, many different types of cancels and values.
Probably thousands.
#371 The item is an Embossed Duty Stamp of Singapore, a
revenue. These are collectibles in and of themselves, normally affixed to
documents to represent a tax payment. There is a catalog of these, recently
published, The Impressed Duty Stamps of The British Colonial Empire (A
Preliminary Lisitng), by William A. Barber, 1998. If I read your scan
correctly, the item you have is listed as Singapore # 431, listed as an
1883-1896 issue. Description states: " Direct embossed and also overembossing
dies on adhesives in vermilion". | |
 #372 |
"Correos de Venezuela... Apoteosis de Miranda". This is not a listed
postage stamp in Scotts... Anyone know anything about it?
Posted by Paul S. Luchter on 12 November 99 |
ANSWERS:
This is Scott 141 (or one of the forgeries or reprints thereof). | |
 #373 |
I have recently found the Jamaica 1d stamp with the value tablet in the wrong colour.
It looks like the colour of the 2 1/2 d from the same issue. For comparison the stamp on
the left is the normal one. Has anybody ever heard about such a variety? Or is this stamp
chemically treated?
Posted by Leo Bakx on 12 November 99 |
ANSWERS:
This may not help: it depends on what Gibbons means by "etc.". After your
stamp Gibbons notes: "A very wide range of shades may be found in the 1d. The head-plate was
printed in many shades of purple and the duty-plate in various shades of
mauve and purple and also in carmine, etc.". In my copy the value tablet is
carmine. | |
 #374 |
I recently acquired this Hong Kong stamp. Does anybody know anything about the overprint. Is it bogus or what?
Posted by Leo Bakx on 12 November 99 |
 #375 |
I'm using an Yvert & Tellier catalogue but I can't find this Polish stamp.
Could someone give me more information about it ? (if possible an Yvert n°).
Posted by Ramses on 12 November 99 |
ANSWERS:
This stamp is Poland Michel number 761, Yvert 665, issued 22 July 1952.
#375 is Stanley Gibbons 769, "Adoption of New Constitution", 1952.
The other in the set, green & brown in the same design, is SG768,
semi-postal, 45+15gr. | |
 #376 |
Can you help to identify this stamp ? Is it Polish?
Posted by Ramses on 12 November 99 |
ANSWERS:
This is a 1945 Polish Displaced Persons Camp stamp, this camp was in Lubeck,Germany...
I presume these were released POWs and Concentration Camp survivors...
The inscription on #376 translates to "Post of the Polish camps
in Germany". I guess that this means "refugee camps". It might
have been intended for postal items sent between the camps, but
it can be an entirely private and speculative issue, too.
The building on the stamp looks like the Holstentor in Lübeck
(a large city gate), which is depicted on some stamps of the
British-American zone in Germany 1948.
The currency ( 40 f ) in the upper left corner stands for Fenik - the
Polish word for Pfennig. You find the same abbreviation
on old Polish stamps when they still used German currency in some
parts right after WW I. | |
 #377 |
Can someone help identify this one?
Posted by Davide Bertinotti on 18 November 99 |
ANSWERS:
This stamp is from China, a Military post stamp. | |
 #378 |
Can someone help identify this one?
Posted by Davide Bertinotti on 18 November 99 |
ANSWERS:
The stamp is the first in a set of nine overprints issued by the Chinese
Government for Taiwan (Formosa) November 4, 1945. Listed in Ma's
Revised and Supplemented 1998 Edition, page 355; Chan's Stamp Catalogue
of China, page 271.
Giving that answer from memory... It's from Japanese occupation in Taiwan. I have a set of them...
not much value... If I remember well, those without overprint value much more. | |
 #379 |
Need help identifying this German stamp. Any information would be greatly
appreciated.
Posted by Gary Pittet on 29 November 99 |
ANSWERS:
This is a German private local post for the city of Hannover, issued
1886, by the "Privat-Stadbrief-Expedition MERCUR". Michel catalog # is 1B,
it also come perforated, this was the first issue. | |
 #380 |
I hope perhaps some viewers can identify this. It is obviously a German local of some sort.
Posted by Ian Young on 3 December 99 |
ANSWERS:
A local stamp from Großräschen in the soviet occupied zone of Germany, issued in 1945/46.
It is listed by Michel.
Grossrüschen is north of Dresden, south of Cottbus and east of Leipzig. They released local
issues in 1945 & 46. This is from a set of 4 semi-postals in 1946, the last issue, it is #43 in
the Michel 1990 German specialized catalog.
This is a German Lokalausgabe for Großraschen and is nr. 43 (one in a set of four)
in the Michel German specialised catalogue (cat. value DM 1,25).
#380 Grossraeschen is a place in the Oberlausitz, part of Brandenburg in what
was East Germany. There is/was a lot of coal mining in the region, hence the
coal miner on the stamp and the coal mining slogan "Glueck Auf". I would guess
that this is a local issue from the immediate post WWII period with a supplement
to help in reconstruction, or perhaps to help needy coal miners. | |
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