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I am at a loss to identify this oriental stamp. Your
assistance would be much appreciated! Thanks for any information you may provide!!! Posted by Derrick Grose on 21/01/98
#41 is from Japan. It is some kind of label issued by the Japanese Government Printing
Office (which also prints Japanese Banknotes) as said in the 7 characters
beneath the picture. My guess is that it is related to some kind of festival celebration regarding
the Emperor of Japan, either coronation or marriage. The 4 words in the middle say 'good
things coming this way'. |
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I am at a loss to identify this oriental stamp. Your
assistance would be much appreciated! Thanks for any information you may provide!!! Posted by Derrick Grose on 21/01/98
#42 City revenue stamp from Japan.
#42:
This is a revenue stamp from Osaka, "Use according to 1916 regulation" is
what it says. |
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I am at a loss to identify this oriental stamp. Your
assistance would be much appreciated! Thanks for any information you may provide!!! Posted by Derrick Grose on 21/01/98
#43 Revenue stamp from Japan. "Jade" county revenue stamp, 5 cent may be.
By the way the picture is upside down.
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Is this a charity stamp from Turkey or is it just a label with no postal value?
Posted by Stefano on 16/01/98
This stamp has the inscription Yoksullara yardim cemiyeti - which
translated means Poor Assistance Organization. There is another
inscription going up and down - Balmumcu. This is a district in Istanbul.
The stamp is a private charity label. It was probably sold to generate
money and tolerated on the mails. |
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I haven't been able to properly classify this stamp. It resembles what, according
to my catalogue (Catalogo Unificato), is the temporary issue from Split, yet it doesn't match the illustration
my catalogue presents. Either my catalogue is wrong, or this is not the issue from Split. This particular stamp was cancelled in Split, anyway. Posted by Stefano on 16/01/98
#45 Found in Michel as Jugoslavia/Croatia #21, 1945, surcharge
applied in Split.
-I have checked my catalogue (Stanley Gibbons' Part 3: Balkans; 1982
edition) and the overprint matches the illustration of the Split overprint. |
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I was wondering if you could tell me about this stamp. I am so lost you will never know. I can not find it in the
catalogs and I have not an idea what it may be worth. Your help would be
greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Posted by Sue Evans on 27/01/98
This stamp is classified by Michel Germany as Feldpostmarke #3. Issued in November 1944
to allow families to send goods to their soldiers on battle fields. Its value is pretty
high if originally cancelled, even higher if it's on a fragment or an envelope.
Beware of forged cancels.
This is a German military parcel post stamp issued in 1944. It is
listed in Scott's 1998 catalogue as MO3 and priced at .90 mint ($1.50
unhinged) or 60.00 postally used. There is a note that forged
surcharges exist. |
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Only a local revenue stamp from India? Is there any evidence of a postal use of it?
Posted by Stefano on 01/02/98
This is a revenue stamp from the State of Bihar in India. This has never
been officially authorised for postal use. If found to be postally used,
it would be due to an oversight of the postal authorities. |
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What is this? (Bayerisches Staatseisenbahnen stands for Bavarian State Railways).
Posted by Stefano on 01/02/98
These are indeed stamps issued by the Bavarian State Railways.
They also exist with the inscription "Kgl. Bayer. Staatseisenb.", an abbreviation of the German "Koenigliche Bayerische Staatseisenbahngesellschaft",
which translates as "Royal Bavarian State Railway Company".
This is a railway parcel stamp from the Bavarian State Railway.
The Dusterbehn catalog lists 52 different stamps issued between
1904-1920.
This is a railway-stamp, so it is not sold by the postal authorities,
but by (in this case) the Bavarian railway-company. The German Michel
catalogue does not mention them, because they are no postage stamps.
That is somewhat strange, since they do mention the Belgian
railway-stamps in their catalogue.
A railway-stamp is used for paying the railway-company for transporting
(usually) a parcel. So they are most often found on the papers that go
with a parcel. |
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A stamp overprinted by Nagorno-Karabakh authorities? Does
any catalogue list this issue? Note Stepanakert written in latin alphabet
and the small HKP (Nagorno-Karabakhskaja Respublika) in cyrillic. I can't
make out what the other writing is.
Posted by Stefano on 01/02/98
Stepanakert is the capital of Nagorno-Karabach, an autonomous
region in Azerbaijan that wants to be (is?) independent. I've seen a
variety of stamps from this area, but no catalog. Like the other
ex-USSR "locals", most are likely to be private or bogus issues.
Agree with Rick, most likely to be bogus, but some Nagorno-Karabakh have
been found on international mail. My attempts to respond to mail,
addressing the envelope either
ARTSAKH is local name for N-K. They have a great website but I've lost
the address. If you do a search and find it, you'll find a picture of
the monument shown on the overprint. |
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What is this overprint? What does it mean? Is it something similar to a perfin?
Posted by Stefano on 01/02/98
You're exactly right. Most modern British definitives exist with overprints to identify their users, to make them (exactly like perfins) difficult to use by anyone else.
This appears to be a security overprint from Great
Britain. These stamps were overprinted with initials or companies'
names for the same revenue protection motivations as perfins, but
those I've seen have been used for revenue rather than postal use.
The NTGB overprint is indeed for non-postal purposes. I believe it may
stand for the "National Trust of Great Britain", but that's only a guess.
These are more common on tax bills from gas and electricity companies.
This is a security overprint (performing the same function as a
perfin). It is also correct that these were usually printed on stamps
used for revenue purposes rather than for postage. However, the
obligation to pay a 2d stamp duty charge on receipts was abolished many
years ago (at least in the early 1960s).
The explanations for item #50 have
been correct. The stamp is what is called a
"commercial overprint", and is very much like a
perfin. British firms had to pay a 2d duty (1d until
1920) on each receipt they gave. The Brits used to
have special adhesive revenue stamps, but they got
smart and began printing Postage Revenue on their
stamps - making them valid for either postage or
revenue. But then employees started dipping into
the stocks of stamps that were kept on hand to pay the
receipt duty, so companies began using perfins or
overprints to make such pilferage and misuse easier
to spot. The government began to discourage the use
of perfins, so overprints became the standard - and
that is why you see so many of them, almost all with
non-postal cancels. Commercial overprints were not
valid for postage, but they are known postally used.
They are not really rare (kind of like improperly
used perfins), but they are very collectible -
particularly on cover. The whole scheme ended in
1970, when the receipt duty was abolished in a major
overhaul of the tax program. |
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