 #451 |
A Soviet stamp with CCCP obliterated. Though it doesn't show up well in reproduction, this
stamp has an overprint, PIBHe. What could it be?
Posted by Ian Young on 28 Jul 00 |
ANSWERS:
Ukraine, bogus issue, with overprint of the town name Rivne (Rovno in russian). | |
 #452 |
I have several of these with different designs and similar
inscriptions. Locals or private issues?
Posted by Ian Young on 28 Jul 00 |
ANSWERS:
Ukraine, again a bogus local stamp, in the design of the carpatho-Ukraine issue of 1945.
Many of these sets were printed after the new independence by Mafia people. | |
 #453 |
This Austrohungarian stamp is not in Yvert or in SG. Not under Bosnia either. Does
anyone have a clue? In both catalogs, the 1K value is simply skipped.
Posted by Casper Boks on 14 Sep 00 |
ANSWERS:
Billig's Philatelic Handbook (Volume I, 2nd Edition, page 78) identifies a 1k
olive bistre on blue as the last of a set of 14 stamp values ranging from 1h
to 1k that was issued in 1919 as both perf 12 1/2 and imperf. As of the
publication date of this volume (1944), the 1k stamp was valued at $1 mint.
Billig's also states that "due to the end of the World War, the above set was
never placed in use. It was sold, however, at the Vienna Post Office for a
few days."
This stamp belongs to a non-issued set from the Austrian-Hungarian
Fieldpost 1918. It is listed in MICHEL under "K.u.K.-Feldpost -
Allgemeine Ausgaben". Value is 0,50 DM.
Stamp #453 is listed in Michel and Netto as the high value of an unissued
1918 Feldpost set. Michel No XIV. It's a set of 14 stamps where only the 1K
stamp has your design. 1998 Cat Value is 50 pf. Great site by the way!
This military post stamp was printed but not issued, due to the breakdown
of the Austrian-Hungarian Front in 1918. 13 stamps in another design with
Kaiser Karl and his Queen were also printed by not issued. The stamps found
their way to the philatelic market unused. Some are rare, but other, like the 1 K are
common. They are all mentioned in my Danish AFA catalogue and my old German
SENF catalogue | |
 #454 |
Really have no idea, these were anounced to me as French proofs... any idea?
Posted by Henk Wallays on 14 Sep 00 |
ANSWERS:
If you bought these as proofs, then you'll be disappointed. Although the originals of these were issued in 1896 as
commemorative labels for the visit of Tsar Nicholas II to France, there are plenty of "reprints" around. The originals
were issued in nine different colours, grey violet, violet, blue, green, pale green, yellow, red, reddish brown and brown.
Other types of label were issued at the same time between 5th and 8th October, 1896. | |
 #455 |
Fiume: a private issue?
Posted by Theo Stoevenbelt on 19 Sep 00 |
ANSWERS:
I live in Rijeka (formerly known as Fiume), and I am interested in all kind of Fiume stamps,
but I have never seen something like this!
It is my opinion that this is some kind of fantasy issue,
maybe by some Italian refugee who left town after World war 2.
But most of all it is interesting that that position of buildings DO NOT EXIST in Fiume and never did!
The tower shown on stamp is supposed to be the main city tower-watch
but obiously whoever made that stamp has not ever been in Rijeka (Fiume)! | |
 #456 |
Where is this stamp from, Turkey? Is it a postage stamp?
Posted by Theo Stoevenbelt on 19 Sep 00 |
ANSWERS:
This stamp is a Turkish revenue stamp for revenues on public wells or fountains from the town of Kioztepe.
It's mentioned in the McDonald catalogue for Revenues of Ottoman and Republic of Turkey.
This is a Turkish (Ottoman) Constantinople Municipal Water Tax stamp, 1876 to pay for maintaining the Roman aqueducts.
It is in three languages: Turkish written in both English and Arabic alphabets, Armenian and Greek. It identifies the
quarter that the stamp was for. I have two from two different quarters. Yours is from a third, the Kjoztepe Quarter of
Constantinople. | |
 #457 |
Georgie: 27-01-1920. Unknown overprint?
Posted by Theo Stoevenbelt on 19 Sep 00 |
ANSWERS:
This overprint is bogus, but very rare. It exists on all values of this set, perforated and imperforated, and also exists
inverted. It purports to be an "Independence" issue but the date is wrong. I seem to remember it being mentioned by my late
friend, Harry Rooke, in his articles on Phantom Stamps in the PHILATELIST. | |
 #458 |
Stadt Post Amt Bremen; is this a stamp?
Posted by Theo Stoevenbelt on 19 Sep 00 |
ANSWERS:
#458 - This is a postal stationery cut square, issued in 1853 - BEFORE
Bremen issued postage stamps. It would appear to have a Thurn & Taxis cancel.
Cut-out from envelopes of the Bremen Local Post, issued in some varieties between 1853 and 1867. Listed in Michel Ganzsachen-Katalog
Deutschlands 1999, page 53. | |
 #459 |
The overprint reads "Kastellorizon": private overprint for Castelrosso?
Posted by Theo Stoevenbelt on 19 Sep 00 |
ANSWERS:
You are correct. Reverted to Italy about 1922.
Back to Greece after WW2. (March 1948)
| |
 #460 |
Private overprint Kuriersko Poliswa Poszte? Any info on this one?
Posted by Theo Stoevenbelt on 19 Sep 00 |
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