 #391 |
I want to know where is this stamps from.
Posted by Marc Udina on 17 December 99 |
ANSWERS:
This is an Official Stamp of Nepal, issued 1959, from a set of 11 values:
Gibbons - O138; Michel - Dienstmarken 4; Scott - O4.
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 #392 |
I want to know where is this stamps from.
Posted by Marc Udina on 17 December 99 |
ANSWERS:
I guess this is a hungarian cut square.
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 #393 |
I know it is from Czechoslovakia and that in Scott's cat., this design (Hradcany at Prague) is
listed under the 1918 - 1919 issue and that this particular color and
denomination is under #3 10 h rose, however it is not listed as imperf with
this particular overprint.-surcharge. It is very attractive and I would like
to find out more about it. It is almost like a wrapper of some sort like the
US used to use for newspapers, but the more I look at it, it appears that a
complete sheet was overprinted and then stamps were cut out individually. What
do you think?
Posted by Stan Ginsberg on 23 December 99 |
ANSWERS:
393 - Czechoslovakia - not an overprint: printer's waste. If you look carefully
through all the details, you'll see a Hradcany issue and a Falcon issue
printed together. I have several examples of similar items, and have seen
them offered locally at about $3 each.
#393 appears to be printer's waste or a test printing.
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 #394 |
Can anybody identify this mysterious french stamp?
Posted by Peter Polyak on 23 December 99 |
ANSWERS:
The stamp is an 1850 French essay. The 1975 Yvert et Tellier specialized
catalog lists it at 5 francs. On many of the issues listed in the 1975
Yvert, the 1996 Scott Catalog value is about 0.4 dollars times the 1975
price in francs, thus it could be about $2 in Scott's pricing.
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 #395 |
Can anybody help me with this stamp? The transliteration is "Respublika
Nokhtchiitcho" and seems to be a Chechen stamp for its shield.
Posted by Marc Udina on 11 January 00 |
ANSWERS:
#395 Ickeria - I cannot be of much help because the false (many) and original
(few) overprints on Russian stamps are related to a thousand different locations
(excluding Ukraine!). I have a personal note under "Nokchicho" that says:
"see Ickeria Republic 1994 false overprint", but I do not find now my source. Sorry!
#395 I was recently given a mini sheet that I guess explains the mistery: the writings in my
mini sheet are "Chechenia" in latin characters and "Respublika Nokhtchitcho Içkeria" in cyrillic.
So this stamp was presumably issued for Chechenia too (that these stamps and other bogus issues
were probably never even seen in Russia is a total different story... I only wish that stamp
dealers were honest enough not to sell them).
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 #396 |
Can anybody help me classifying this stamp?
Posted by Marco Allevi on 11 January 00 |
ANSWERS:
This is a Revenue from 1888 for Russia probably Forbin nr. 10
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 #397 |
Is it possible to merely ask a questionon the `weird stamp'
site? I do not have access to a scanner. My question is about two
seeming Prince Michael, 1866, Serbian items. The first is a one para,
black impression on rose paper; the second is the same issue, red
impression on yellow paper. Both are imperforate. Are these proofs?
Posted by Paul Hartman on 11 January 00 |
 #398 |
I have a stamp from Fiji which I am unable to identify.
What is it and where was it used for?
Posted by Leo Bakx on 14 January 00 |
ANSWERS:
#398 Fiji official - It is a 1889 Fiji frank wrappen stamp. For usage by government departments.
I know of two different types of paper.
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 #399 |
This nice overprint is not in Michel Deutschland Spezial catalog. Does anybody have any info on it?
Posted by Stan Fairchild on 20 January 00 |
ANSWERS:
Not an overprint but part of a pictorial machine cancel with the advertisement
"Benutzt die Luftpost" ("Use airmail") which was fairly widely
in use in the 1920s when airmail services became regular.
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 #400 |
I hope someone can help me to identify this stamp, a Lebanese stamp with errors in the overprint.
Posted by Neven Madian on 25 January 00 |
ANSWERS:
I don't see what is the problem with this stamp. What do you think are the
errors in the overprint? It seems to be the 2p 50 from the pictorial issue
of 1925, surcharged 7p 50 in 1926, and overprinted "Republique Libanaise" in
1927; not to be confused with the 1928 issue which has an additional
overprint in Arabic. Some catalogues give the impression that the double
bar must be above "Republique Libanaise", but the Scott catalogue has the
helpful note "On all stamps the double bar obliterates GRAND LIBAN", and on
the 2p 50 value, that inscription is at the foot of the stamp. Catalogue
Nos: Gibbons 113, Michel 113, Scott 83.
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