Markings on the Backs of Stamps

I missed this thread/post. I guess I will email Rod regarding this.

I'm not convinced the reply he got is correct. I've not known this to be the practice in the Republic of China -- but don't hold me to that.

What is more likely, and I've seen this happen, is transfer from the envelope to the back of the stamp during soaking.

I know it's not obvious, but the mark is actually a mirror image. That suggests to me that it is indeed a transferred image.

Below is the correct orientation for comparison:

Russian stamp money had this printed on the back.



these backs were shown on the previous page I believe.

I know this has come up elsewhere, but I can't remember where, and my efforts searching have come up empty, so please forgive me if this is not the correct category. [post merged into this thread by Admin]

While soaking and sorting a recent acquisition of Great Britain stamps, I came across these (and I have others, but they still have hinges on them...

Can anyone tell me the signifigance (or insignifigance?)

First - actual printing




and then these, perhaps stamped on the back by hand(?)

Ryan  - I will print out the PDF and file for reference!

as to the stamping on the back of the stamps (try saying that fast 10 times in a row), perhaps it is the owner, as this is from what I believe was a single collection.  I will have to look and see if I have any of the single line graphite specimens (I have several of the double)

Thanks!


Stanley

I asked about these a while back and I've now finished sorting into smaller piles  GB and these I pulled out. These are a bit too "modern" for me, but if anyone has an interest PM me!  Notice one only has a single line (2d brown)... i know there's a second one somewhere...but it's have found it's way back intot e larger sort piles.... 

France has added numbers to the reverse of coil stamps for accounting purposes for some time, usually on every 10th stamp.
These are from the 1982 - onwards of Gandon's "Liberty" design.

This is an amusing one on a Cape Juby stamp I used to own.

I like them - but then again I'm a fan of the Iberian Peninsular and their colonies, though I'm really only a beginner. Here, it may depend on when these marks were made - back toward the middle of the C20, collectors and dealers used to sometimes pencil on the SG No. (for the U.K. market), and occasionally the value, but the marks on these are slightly mystifying.
the 15c. here appears to have a long No. on the back - Spain did this but don't know if Portugal/colonies did the same.
Sorry this is unhelpful, hopefully someone will have the right answer.

thanks stanley64 - thanks for the better picture - agree, this isn't one of the 'Spanish type' long numbers, and do we think this is telling us the date of 1926 ? - but no idea as to what the hieroglyphics looking bit is in the middle. Very interesting nonetheless.

edited to add:   This Roman deity was a busy gal - worshiped as a goddess of agriculture, fertility, grains, the harvest, motherhood, the earth, and cultivated crops - didn't seem to have a day off, and as we know  very busy too appearing on stamps.
For the Portugal/Mozambique issues, she looks to have mostly been done in ochre, green or chocolate until c. 1913, when the 15c.  colour appears to change to 'claret', and mauve/rose doesn't appear until  much later  -  but, no doubt it depends on whose catalogue you're  looking at, but I agree the perfs.                  I've been peering into  SG., who speak of 'dull rose' for  printings of this denomination of Ceres c. 1926 for Mozambique, and for which it looks like they use T13 as their own type reference, and main SG No. of 301.        
Looking again at the markings I'm thinking possibly what we're seeing is an  upper case M contained mostly within an oval  cartouche, and which splits  the date of 19  --  26 thus.   Just my opinions.