Bosnia & Herzegovina: Defaced Issue of 1906
May 28, 2017 19:53:29 GMT
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Post by Beryllium Guy on May 28, 2017 19:53:29 GMT
First of all, I would like to thank @falshung for his very fine posts of early Bosnia & Herzegovina issues. Falschung's posts have inspired me to dig these stamps out of my stockbooks of material that I don't know what to do with! These stamps originally were part of my father's collection, which he turned over to me about 20 years ago.
For some time, I have wondered about these defaced specimens, and how they came to be this way. I did a little internet research and I found an article published and re-published in 2005 titled "Bosnia's Punched Hole Mystery" (link below), which talks about the possible reasons behind these defaced stamps.
www.angelfire.com/pr/perfinsoc/abstracts/3858.pdf
At that time, it was hypothesized that this might have been done for various possible reasons: demonetization, telegraph usage, perfins, pre-cancels, printer's waste, archival punched, political protest, remainders, and souvenirs. The article concludes with its "best guess" scenario that in 1912, the leftover stamps from the pictorial issue were defaced at the printing office in Vienna and then sold in bulk to stamp dealers for use in the packet trade.
Personally, these examples in my own collection are the only ones I have ever seen, and I have been curious about them for a long time, as there is nothing about them in the Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue. If anyone on TSF knows more about these stamps, or if there has been something more recently published than the 2005 article I found, I would love to see it.
For some time, I have wondered about these defaced specimens, and how they came to be this way. I did a little internet research and I found an article published and re-published in 2005 titled "Bosnia's Punched Hole Mystery" (link below), which talks about the possible reasons behind these defaced stamps.
www.angelfire.com/pr/perfinsoc/abstracts/3858.pdf
At that time, it was hypothesized that this might have been done for various possible reasons: demonetization, telegraph usage, perfins, pre-cancels, printer's waste, archival punched, political protest, remainders, and souvenirs. The article concludes with its "best guess" scenario that in 1912, the leftover stamps from the pictorial issue were defaced at the printing office in Vienna and then sold in bulk to stamp dealers for use in the packet trade.
Personally, these examples in my own collection are the only ones I have ever seen, and I have been curious about them for a long time, as there is nothing about them in the Scott Classic Specialized Catalogue. If anyone on TSF knows more about these stamps, or if there has been something more recently published than the 2005 article I found, I would love to see it.