renden
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Post by renden on May 25, 2020 17:05:44 GMT
Doing my Poland inventory - from an old Scott Junior Album (my late dad bought it in the 60s) 1 - set of N17-N29 (Scott) 1939, Dec 1 - these German Stamps of 1934 were surcharged in Black 2 - Full page in same Album showing Occupation Official Stamps 1940/Occupation Rural Delivery Stamps of 1940 Under German Occupation
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ameis33
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Post by ameis33 on Jun 2, 2020 21:03:27 GMT
A little curiosity on a very normal stamp of 1978... This stamp was printed in two colors, light blue and black. Sometime, the black color appears misalligned... It's not considered a variety in the catalogs, but it's a nice effect (to me)...
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Post by rex on Jun 9, 2020 12:57:23 GMT
Coat of arms of Poland 1932 30gr SG 288 . - 1928 25gr SG 278
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Post by rex on Jun 9, 2020 13:15:02 GMT
Eagle on Shield Fiscals 1921 SG D164 without overprint These couple is overprinted in black 20000 if I'm not wrong, overprint that I can't find in my catalog..??
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renden
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Post by renden on Jun 10, 2020 17:30:50 GMT
Doing my Poland inventory, found these 2 interesting stamps. I gather, from Y&T that they are # 6 and # 8 - These were issued in 1915 as Local Warsaw surcharged, perf 11 1/2. One represents 2 on 10 gr. T II (#6) and the other is 6 gr. on 5 TI (Y&T). Interesting also is the postmark 29 3 16 from Poczta Miejska (Gorka ?). Scott does not list them. René
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Jun 10, 2020 20:07:49 GMT
Eagle on Shield Fiscals 1921 SG D164 without overprint These couple is overprinted in black 20000 if I'm not wrong, overprint that I can't find in my catalog..?? (image deleted - see earlier post) Hi, Ludovico: Please see excerpt below from the 2008 Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue 1840-1940. Your stamp is listed under Poland as a Postage Due, Sc J49, 20,000m surcharge on 20m indigo. The underlying 20m stamp is Sc 45, also shown in the listing below. I don't have an SG WW Catalogue to compare, but in theory, it should be there. Hope this helps!
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Post by rex on Jun 11, 2020 8:44:27 GMT
This help a lot Chris Beryllium Guy , brings light on these two little ones. Unfortunately because of the virus I live in another house of mine, where I don't have all my philatelic things including world catalogs, also many things that I would have liked to show here. Thanks again Ludovico
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ameis33
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Post by ameis33 on Aug 4, 2020 14:13:59 GMT
The stamps i'm going to show you were printed in sheets of 7 rows and 8 columns, with a total of 56 stamps per sheet... But since 56 is a difficult number to deal with (!!), to facilitate accounting it has been decided simply not to print 6 of them... To be honest, i like to think the true origin of this idea was to create interest in more than a single stamp, putting the first row, or the sheet's head or the whole sheet in the collection instead... More than stamps, we should speak about border inscriptions, which also include the plate or the cylinder numbers, the various labels that are sometimes printed (like on many Israel stamps), or the modern bar codes (are bar codes collected just in Italy?)... However, I find them particular and attractive, although i'm not sure we could speak of philately...
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ameis33
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Post by ameis33 on Aug 4, 2020 14:42:25 GMT
BTW! How do you store complete sheets?
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renden
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Post by renden on Aug 4, 2020 18:38:38 GMT
BTW! How do you store complete sheets? In a sheet binder with each page seperated by a "glassine-like material" Mine measure 12 X 12 (inches) link to show you - from a Montreal, Canada stamp firm www.arpinphilately.com/cat/mint-sheet-albums
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Post by stainlessb on Aug 18, 2020 22:56:47 GMT
Not sure this is the best place to post.... a southwest district of Poland, Upper Silesian insurgents , Gory Slask uprising 1921 Mi # 4A only one I have, mixed in with German States
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ameis33
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Post by ameis33 on Aug 19, 2020 17:49:42 GMT
One of the best online resources for the polish area is the "Polish Stamps Encyclopedia" www.stampspoland.nl/If, on the left side, you select "World War I Military", and then (always on the left side) "Upper Silesian insurgents", you have a complete listing of this issue... Not to be confused with the Upper Silesian plebiscites...
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ameis33
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Post by ameis33 on Sept 1, 2020 20:49:12 GMT
The Ugly Duckling
Triangular stamps appeared in Poland much much after the first one, in 1959...
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Post by paul1 on Aug 2, 2022 17:41:03 GMT
I did a quick take and assumed these were stationery pieces cut from envelopes - but as the knowledgeable here will realize they are in fact proper stamps, albeit imperf - I can't see other imperf issues from around that date - do we know if these were the only such Polish issues in the immediate post war period? They appear to have been printed in late '45 and/or early '46, and understandably the paper quality is quite 'hairy'. Only three out of the set of six unfortunately, and turned up in an inexpensive charity shop album - certainly at one time SG 540, 541 and 543, though unsure if that information remains accurate. All six represent views of Warsaw with the landscape view split showing left half as pre war and the right side in 1945. The carmine example 1.5 zloty is view of a castle - the blue 3 zloty is St. Johns Cathedral (or what was left of it in '45) and the slate 6 zloty is apparently the General Post Office in Warsaw. The margins are not too meagre - I could be tempted to acquire the other three - though I'm not supposed to collect Poland .
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Post by Linda on Aug 3, 2022 9:52:45 GMT
I was sorting my Polish stamps and realised that the facial values on them didn't make much sense. This is the recent stamp with the highest facial value, at 15.30 zl, that is still available on Poczta Polska's website. I was expecting that due to inflation, the facial value of stamp (which reflects the shipping cost at the time) increased with year. That is to say, older stamps should have smaller facial values. But this is not the case. Here are a bunch of Polish stamps in my possession: As you can see, compared with newer stamps, the facial values on older stamps (up to 1990's) are rather large, ranging from 15.00 zl to 1000 zl. Are these zl's equivalent? If they are, when do Polish people need to use those high-value stamps at 500 zl or 1000 zl? Or is there a decimal separator missing in the case of 3-digit and 4-digit numbers? Or is there an year (call it X) starting from which the old currency needs to be converted to the new currency (that is to say, pre-X zl = a fraction of post-X zl)? How should I make sense of these numbers?
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Post by Admin on Aug 3, 2022 10:46:42 GMT
From Wikipedia:
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Aug 3, 2022 11:25:01 GMT
Opps, I just sent out a letter using stamps in old złoty (PLZ) ...
Can pre-1995 Polish stamps still be used (so long as the conversion is done)?
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Post by paul1 on Aug 3, 2022 15:20:48 GMT
Assuming a given currency remains unchanged - for example in 1950 Sterling was used in an identical way to its use in 1850 - i.e. 20 shillings/240 pennies = £1 (Imperial) - then what happens usually is that the buying power of individual units (shillings - pence - pounds) falls, and such units have a decreasing purchasing power with the passing of time. In the U.K., the average domestic suburban house in 1930 might have cost c. £2000 - £3000 freehold - in the late 1960s that same house would have cost £5500 to £6500. Wages increase so buying power increases so prices increase, and in a free market this see-saw of increase of disposable income and rising prices creates inflation and then governments hike interest rates because we're spending too much, but all the while the price for an identical item increases slowly year by year. C. 1970 U.K. currency changed to a decimal base and overnight Mars Bars seem to double in price - now they've shrunk in size, a direct result of makers stabilizing prices, but maintaining profit by decreasing volume. Mass is the definition of the amount of stuff in something - so Mars have less mass;-) Obviously, Poland is an exception due to the revaluation of their currency, but am sure you're correct Linda in that ....................."the facial value of stamp (which reflects the shipping cost at the time) increased with year. That is to say, older stamps should have smaller facial values." That this is true can be seen in the increasing cost of a U.K. letter-rate stamp from the beginning of the C20 compared to the end of the same century. Exceptions to this upward spiral of cost of an identical item would be caused by competition driving a prices down - though usually at the cost of quality. It looks like the cost of a U.S. 1st class stamp in 2000 was about $0.33 and is now something like $0.60 - imagine if your wages hadn't increased!! Unfortunately, economy wise the U.K. is crashing at the moment.
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Post by phildug on Feb 25, 2024 18:52:20 GMT
Thanks to this topic, no I known were to put the following stamps: There is a lot of variety in the overprint (size, police) and the ink may be blue, violet, black or even red. With the help of your reference, I will try to identify in wich town they were overprinted. This will made a nice page on my polish album.
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Post by franoise on Feb 25, 2024 19:11:11 GMT
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Post by phildug on Feb 26, 2024 15:19:20 GMT
Merci Françoise. Site très complet sur le sujet.
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