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Post by antoniusra on Apr 1, 2014 6:03:28 GMT
For today Pakistan After Pakistan won it's independence from India the first issues were those of India that were overprinted Pakistan. Shown are the first 3 pages
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 2, 2014 23:32:48 GMT
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 5, 2014 3:26:30 GMT
One of my favorite collecting areas are the Baltics. Consisting of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia their stamps all have a type of primitive beauty that I find irresistable. For today lithuania is up for showing. In this post are five pages of the regular issues including the very primitive 1st page. Next post will show some of the airmails.
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 5, 2014 3:30:48 GMT
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 6, 2014 1:30:58 GMT
Today the South American French colony of Inini Part of French Guiana it had it's own stamps from 1932 through 1939. All the issues are shown except the 5 semi postals which I do not have.
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 6, 2014 22:30:54 GMT
For today LaosPrior to 1949 Laos as well as Cambodia and Vietnam were possessions of France and they all used the stamps of Indo-China. Shown are 4 of the 5 first pages of regular issues and the second airmail page which sports the top key stamp of the country at the top of page. The stamp must be quite scarce as $175 for a stamp printed in 1954 is very uncommon. If anyone has info as to the number of these printed I would appreciate knowing. All in all it's pretty hard to find a country that has such consistantly beautiful stamps.
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 9, 2014 2:22:58 GMT
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 10, 2014 2:15:11 GMT
Today, one of my favorite countries; Portugal One of the more challenging and fun countries to collect, I highly recommend it to anyone wanting to start a new area. With near limitless varieties, it is hard not to get pretty deep into. It was one of my last European countries to concentrate on and I have put the bulk of it together in the last 4 years. In this post I'm showing the first 5 pages and will show some later pages in the next post.
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 10, 2014 22:50:27 GMT
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Post by Philatarium on Apr 10, 2014 22:57:10 GMT
As promised for today, a few more pages from PortugalFor those that are interested Portugal B.O.B. stamps can be seen hereWow -- those 1898 Postage Dues are probably the most attractive dues designs I've ever seen! Thanks for opening my eyes to them, Mitchell! -- Dave
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 11, 2014 0:01:36 GMT
Dave, opening eyes is what I like to do! They certainly are not the run of the mill dues and it makes you wonder why more countries do not get more creative with them. With the exception of some French colonies most all are just simple numeral designs with little appeal. I suppose it is just because they are basically just functionary and used only by the P.O.'s. You will also notice that they were overprinted in 1911 for regular postage payment duty, see the 3rd page above in the last post. Although not mentioned in Scott or my Portuguese Santos catalog the 200 R was printed in several different colors and on different colored papers. The base price used is $67.50 for used and I can't help but wonder if the different color types have more value. As far as I know there could be several other shades but considering the value I'm surprised to have found the ones I have, most of the ones I have come across are different. If anyone has Michel or any other catalogs that does or does not make note of these, I would appreciate any info.
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Post by Philatarium on Apr 11, 2014 2:26:39 GMT
Mitchell:
And Japan never used dues at all. They just rubber-stamped the envelope "insufficient".
Do you know of any other countries that did anything in this league? (I'm thinking some Austrian revenues are pretty amazing, if I'm remembering right.) But postage dues are usually just the unsung hero of collecting fees.
I quickly checked Michel for Portugal and didn't see any reference to various colored papers for the VDG stamps either in the main issues or in the postage dues. It seems like Scott Classic, with its modest reference, is more complete than Michel, which is a little surprising.
-- Dave
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 11, 2014 5:24:46 GMT
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 11, 2014 5:25:44 GMT
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Post by Philatarium on Apr 11, 2014 17:21:37 GMT
Mitchell: Sorry to take this long to get back to the board after your posts last night.
What a great showing this is of dues where some additional thought, intent and design went into them. Thank you for going to trouble to pull up and highlight these pages here.
It's just my impression, and I could be all wet, that, in general, French and Italian colonies had a little more leeway in the design of the stamps, i.e., that could be a little more customized for their country, rather than just being a standard issue from the home powers. It seems especially true for back-of-the-book material.
Now, I can think of all kinds of exceptions to this with British Commonwealth, too, but it seems like it is more true of the French and Italian colonials. Just my impression.
As I've said elsewhere on this board, I think if I were starting over now, I'd be building an early worldwide airmail collection, supplemented by interesting (i.e., not overprints) other BOB categories.
Thanks again for showing these!
-- Dave
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 12, 2014 18:45:20 GMT
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 12, 2014 18:55:43 GMT
Dave, It's really does not require much effort as I have the bulk of my collection scanned and ready for sharing. As far as Italy and it's colonies are concerned, I cannot recall any "out of the ordinary" postage due stamps. If memory serves, they are all pretty much simple numeral designs.
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 13, 2014 21:27:19 GMT
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Post by Ryan on Apr 13, 2014 23:11:20 GMT
Although not mentioned in Scott or my Portuguese Santos catalog the 200 R was printed in several different colors and on different colored papers. .... If anyone has Michel or any other catalogs that does or does not make note of these, I would appreciate any info. My AFINSA specialized also doesn't list any info on extra shades of the 200 R. It does say that the 200 R stamp was printed on coloured chalk-surfaced paper and it mentions that forgeries exist, but there's no info beyond that. I have no Portuguese language skills - I have no idea if "papel porcelana colorido" means "paper surfaced with coloured chalk" or "coloured paper surfaced with chalk". Ryan
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 14, 2014 22:58:45 GMT
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 14, 2014 23:00:12 GMT
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Post by Ryan on Apr 14, 2014 23:13:32 GMT
Ryan, Thanks that's very helpful. I did not know there were forgeries of this issue. I've compared several of the denominations against each other and see one or two, I think are probably fakes. The last 200 hundred in the row below definetly has many aspects that differ from the rest. Also the one to it's immediate left also look suspicious. The one thing that sticks out the most to me is the shape of the "9" in 1898. Both the last two stamps differ from all the rest. One thing I notice on your 200 R stamps is the different size of the circles around the value tablet. And I agree, the last two on the right are different from the first three. And it isn't just that the last two have smaller circles because of heavier inking - if you look at the horizontal lines at the very top of the stamp, those above "CORREIOS" and "1898", they're much thicker on the first three than they are on the last two. Ryan
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 15, 2014 4:45:39 GMT
Ryan, I'm still scratching my head on these but I'm pretty confident the last 200r is a forgery and most probably the one to it's left. Today LatakiaPart of Syria under French mandate via the treaty of Versailles, A total of 35 overprinted Syrian stamps (according to Scott) were issued. Showing all but the two postage dues from 1931 through 1933.
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 17, 2014 1:50:51 GMT
The page for today is the U.S. 1865 Newspaper and Periodicals. They are perhaps the largest of all U.S. stamps ever produced. I've added a regular sized definitive from the 1894 bureau issue for size comparison. I just received the 10 center (PR2a) today. It is a little beat up but they are most often found in this condition owing to rough usage and the stamps are valued with expected faults. I got it for $20.00 which 1.1% of the $1,800 catalog value. Hopefully the light cancel is legit, I need to find an example of the type cancel used on these? TThe unused value is $300. No thins or tears just a couple of medium creases. One of these days I need to replace the 25 center as this one is a forgery
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 18, 2014 4:21:09 GMT
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 20, 2014 4:03:08 GMT
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Post by antoniusra on Apr 21, 2014 3:53:03 GMT
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Post by I.L.S. on Apr 21, 2014 12:55:57 GMT
I don't want to clutter up your post A-Ra but you might find this both funny and a bit disturbing about N.Korea. Apparently we all live in tents, eat wild birds and subsist on Government issued hot snow! But N.Korea graciously provides N.Korean coffee and cakes...lol
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