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Post by tobben63 on Aug 23, 2020 6:13:46 GMT
Speaking of African countries with conservative stamp issuance policies...Botswana is a country that I actively collect and they have some beautiful stamps and sets. There is one stamp in the lot from Botswana and from a 6-stamp set issued in 1984 for the International Civil Aviation Organization 40th Anniversary, Scott nos. 349-354. It also happens to be a stamp I need for my collection. The stamp from this set is Sc. 350 depicting a Westland Wessex and with a denomination of 10 thebes. The postmark has the country name at the bottom of the circle and a date of November 20, 1984. The "84" is barely legible and blends in the design in the background. I have been unable to identify the town or city name except for a partial name of "tleng". Any help with this would be appreciated. I did a cursory glance over the Google map of Botswana and also looked at a list of city and town names on Wikipedia. I think it must be Kgatleng
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Post by darkormex on Aug 23, 2020 13:00:26 GMT
tobben63, that looks like it. It does not show up on Google maps and was not obvious. Thank you for doing some digging. That letter combination of "tleng" was somewhat unique so I was sure it was findable.
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Post by darkormex on Aug 23, 2020 13:32:48 GMT
I have seen Tanzanian sets for sale in CTO topical sets and have even purchased a few myself back in the 90s when I was trying to fill the pages of a worldwide collection that was year specific. A set from 1996 on the theme of Butterflies was one I remember seeing and this stamp is one from that series of stamps. The Scott nos. are 1445-1451 and there is also a souvenir sheet, Sc. 1452. The stamp in the series from the lot I purchased is no. 1446, the 100sh stamp identified as Inachis io. There is only a faintly visible outline of a postmark in which I can identify the country name and some letters of a city name and possibly the start of a date of September 6 but the rest for me is not visible. This is an expensive stamp as far as value in the catalogue is concerned. The set is valued at $12.00 rather than each individual stamp so I am going to divide that total by the number of stamps and come up with $1.71. The stamp is pretty beat up, so, again, this is only hypothetical and, of course, it is the catalogue value so it is not a realistic selling price anyway. $11.97
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Post by darkormex on Aug 23, 2020 14:02:39 GMT
Greece is surprisingly, to me, under-represented in this mix with only one stamp. This is the 120 drachma value from the set issued to commemorate former and now deceased prime minister, Andreas G. Papandreou in 1997. This stamp depicts him leaving an airplane. Again, with this stamp there is no CDS and only the wavy killer bars cancel the stamp. $12.42
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Post by darkormex on Aug 24, 2020 1:09:53 GMT
There is one stamp only from Mexico and this one is from the long running and interesting Architecture and Archaeology series. It is Sc. no. 220H issued in 1963. I particularly like this somewhat complicated series of stamps and would like to fill in more spaces in my album but unfortunately I already have this one and it will go onto my stock pages as future trading material. There are two minor varieties, 220Hi and 220Hj but this stamp doesn't match either of these two perf and type varieties. The postmark is completely unreadable. $13.02
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Post by darkormex on Aug 24, 2020 2:18:20 GMT
I am slowly accumulating stamps from all three of these islands but don't have enough from any of them to be able to really print pages and mount stamps. I have many stamps from Guernsey but few from Jersey and the Isle of Man. All of these will get soaked from paper and added to the stock cards and pages that I keep them on until such time as I have enough to mount. Starting with the Jersey stamp first, this is Scott no. 1588 from a small self-adhesive definitive set depicting castles, lighthouses and other structures and is denominated at the UK letter rate. The stamp was issued in 2012 and takes advantage, I'm sure, of the recent popularity of lighthouses on stamps. Sadly the cancel is an uninteresting wavy set of lines and no postmark. $14.77 A trio of stamps on piece from Guernsey are from the flowers series of definitives that began to be issued in 2008. The 2p, 40p and £1 stamps from this series were on this envelope. All three will be welcome to me as I have none of them. The Scott nos. are 1030 for the 2p (part of a set of low value denominations issued in 2009), the 40p is Sc. no 981 and the £1 is Sc. no. 983. There is a large "Please use the post code" postmark and a date of March 2, 201?. The ? might possibly be a 4 or a 1. These will definitely be soaked and added to my collection. $19.67 Finally, this stamp from the Isle of Man represents the tenth stamp I now own from this semi-autonomous island. The stamp is too recent so it doesn't show up in my 2016 catalogue even though the stamp was issued in 2015. Colnect lists this as SG 2053 and depicts Niart or Strength from the Manx Christmas Prayer Book. The postmark has a CDS that contains Isle of Man Post Office and the numbers 12 and 15 which you may not be able to see in the scan. So possibly mailed in December of 2015 but that is unclear. It would make sense given that the stamp is seemingly issued for Christmas mailing. I have not catalogue value for this stamp though I do see one for sale on Colnect for .32c so that is the value I will use. $19.99
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Post by darkormex on Aug 30, 2020 2:45:56 GMT
I collected Thailand and then sold Thailand and then was the recipient of a very large Thailand collection as a giveaway on another site and collect Thailand once again...or rather, I have added it to all the other countries that I collect as a worldwide collector. There were a few stamps from Thailand in this kiloware lot and most of them were definitives but that is okay and you will see why in just a moment. 15+ years ago when I still had my original collection/accumulation of Thai stamps I had amassed a nice group of classics that I had purchased as part of an eBay auction at a good price and I also had accumulated a large number of modern used definitives because I worked in an office in Korea where there was a lot of correspondence. Nobody else collected stamps and they were nice enough to give it all to me...Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, etc...What I sold was mainly commemoratives and I hung on to all the rest. So many of these definitives below are not new for me but will get soaked and added as trading/selling material. First, these go together because they belong to the same series of King Bhumibol Adulyadej definitives which started to be issued in 1988. Below are 3 copies of the 8 baht, Scott 1246 on piece and a copy of the 2 baht Scott no. 1233, though it is possible that this is 1233a which has a different watermark. It cannot be 1233b which has a different perf because it measures as 1233. I cannot read Thai script. In fact I can read more Mayan hieroglyphs than I can Thai, so any help with the postmarks would be appreciated if there are any members who read Thai. Next is the only commemorative, Scott 1838, issued as part of a group of 4 stamps to commemorate International Letter Writing Week in 1998. The scene here is of Himavanta Mythical creatures and these are a pair of hooved lions. The large format commemoratives of Thailand are always a pleasure which is why I really need to go through the big envelope/collection I received and finally put them onto album pages. Since the inception of his reign most of the definitives series' of Thailand feature the King. The one below is part of a series issued over several years and in various denominations. This 1 baht was issued in 2003 even though the first stamp from this series was issued in 1996. Finally, this overprint of an earlier issued King Bhumibol definitive was issued in 2007 and has a whopping catalogue value of $10.00 which surprised me a bit but considering the 100 baht denomination is probably accurate. These two stamps (I realize one is damaged) with all of the others gave the whole Thailand group of stamps a hypothetical catalog value of $22.30. $42.29 I regret having sold off part of my Thailand collection earlier because I could have had quite a nice collection if I had focused on it. Much of the reason I became infatuated with Thai stamps is because my wife and I spent our honeymoon there as part of a package tour set-up by our GM at the hotel I was working at in Korea. We spent 3 nights in Bangkok and then 5 nights on the island of Koh Samui Would you believe that while we were in Bangkok I dragged my new wife to an international stamp show? Yes...I did and she wasn't too bored by it but she was a freaked out by the presence of a stamp booth from North Korea (my wife is South Korean now a US citizen) and she thought they would try to kidnap her. Needless to say we didn't visit that booth. That was the Bangkok world philatelic exhibition 1993, Bangkok, 1–10 October 1993 (FIP) and it was the first major international stamp exhibition I had ever been to.
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Post by darkormex on Aug 30, 2020 2:58:29 GMT
And I almost forgot...here are some of those King Bhumibol definitives I have kept since I lived in Korea. They are rough sorted with Scott nos. (some not) and they sort of taper off after the 90s.
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Post by darkormex on Sept 1, 2020 2:33:59 GMT
Finally! A better than average postmark shows up! There are a total of 4 stamps from Denmark in the lot I purchased, 3 of which are on the same piece tied by a couple of large commemorative postmark strikes from a town called Skive. This wikipedia article about Skive, Denmark, helped me identify another element of the postmark including the region of Midtjylland. As I have tried to identify more of the text on the postmark I have become confused. There is also the word Havnebeyn which is a town that is south and east of Skive on the island of Sjaelland where Copenhagen is located. Any help would be appreciated. Regardless of that this is a nice big attractive postmark with what looks like a fishing vessel and seagulls. Stamps? Well there is a 40 ore wavy line definitive, Sc.689 in purple and Sc. 632, Queen Margrethe, 110 ore in brown and a commemorative depicting the Weights and Measures ordinance 300th anniversary. The 4th stamp is this 50 ore wavy lines definitive issued in 1974, Scott 494 with a Copenhagen postmark. $43.69
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Post by vikingeck on Sept 1, 2020 10:25:18 GMT
Hi Darrin, darkormex , the small mystery of your SKIVE cancel is where Google and Wikipedia can lead you off on a tangent and mislead. If you look at the location of SKIVE it is on a long sea fjord that cuts in to the heart of Jylland or Jutland . The word HAVNEBYEN is a generic term which in Danish just means Port or Harbour town . It does not refer in this case to the town you found on theIsland of Sjealand., there are several towns in Denmark which have a Havnebyen or port quarter. The postmark just refers to the port of SKive itself “In Jutland, SKIVE the Harbour port in Midjutland” which is why it is illustrated with a ship and a seagull.
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Post by darkormex on Sept 1, 2020 10:38:12 GMT
Thank you vikingeck. I had a feeling it was going to be something like that. There are roads and other points on the map near Skive that have "havne" in them like "havnevej" or port way for example.
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Post by darkormex on Sept 19, 2020 23:22:26 GMT
The Netherlands has a pretty good representation in this worldwide kiloware lot. There are several stamps that I will be able to mount right away once I soak them as they are missing from my Steiner pages. The below three stamps are from a 2007 set of two numeral stamps. The number 80 seems to be popping out of an envelope which is itself made up of small reverse envelope designs. From a previous Netherlands kiloware lot I bought several years ago I know that this was a pretty commonly used stamp as I still have a number of these still on paper in a plastic ziploc bag. Two of the stamps have Rotterdam postmarks and the other has the first 3 letters, ZWO...So probably Zwolle. The Scott no. for these stamps is 952. One of the many Queen Beatrix definitives is represented with this 80ct, Scott number 774A. This one has a Utrecht postmark. In lieu of Christmas stamps, the Netherlands issues December stamps which are sort of a one-theme-fits-all secular stamp for the holidays. This particular two-stamp issue from 1995 features children and stars and also seems to have been postmarked in Zwolle. The Scott no. here is 917. This stamp, issued in 2011 has a stylized light bulb and is denominated Europa 1 plus an attached Priority label. This is Scott 1395 and I have one other from this group of stamps issued in booklets in 2011 so this will definitely fill a space. My guess is the postmark is from the city of Nieuwegen even though it is not fully visible. Windmills were a theme on one episode of Graham Beck's Youtube Vlog and I believe the stamp below was featured. This is Scott no. 1182 and has, again, what I think are the last letters of a Nieuwegen postmark. The below international priority mail booklet stamp is new to me and has a catalog price higher than all the other Dutch stamps in this mix at US$3.00. It again features a windmill and has a nice clear Nieuwegen postmark. One of the only several classic stamps that I have seen so far in this whole mix is the Scott no. 65, Queen Wilhelmina stamps from the 1898-1924 set. It catalogs at base value and is very common still. I have more than a few duplicate copies of this stamp. Only the first letter of the town name on the postmark is visible, the letter D, so there is really no way to identify where it was postmarked. Finally here is a definitive from a more recently issued definitive series featuring King Willem-Alexander. A nice clear Amsterdam postmark is struck over the face of these two stamps and it looks to have been postmarked on June 11, 2018. This will add to the few stamps I have from this recent set of definitives. A couple of years ago, King Willem-Alexander was here in my hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan. This area of Michigan is home to many Dutch immigrants and, in fact, there are two nearby cities called Holland and Zeeland. I myself, if you noticed from the address list or from corresponding with me, have a Dutch name. This is not my name by birth as my stepfather adopted me after my mother remarried. My name at birth, however, was VanAllen from my father and my grandfather on my mother's side was Wagenvelt so I have a pretty tight genetic connection to the Netherlands. $49.54
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Post by darkormex on Sept 20, 2020 0:33:16 GMT
Almost missed one. My windows in my office were open a couple weeks ago and I had a little wind tragedy that overcame my piles of stamps. Here is Scott no. 349 from the 1953 set of Wilhelmina definitives. I am actually surprised there are not more of these in the mix! This has a nice cancel strike from what I think is probably the city of Enkhuizen, dated April 20, 1962. $49.79
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Post by madbaker on Oct 3, 2020 3:25:22 GMT
I'm late to this thread but just want to say how much I enjoyed reading it darkormex . Thank you for the cool scans and the narrative. How did the rest of the mix end up? I have modern stamps on the brain which got me browsing through the Worldwide area. So glad I stumbled across this.
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Post by darkormex on Oct 3, 2020 5:42:12 GMT
madbaker, I am glad you are enjoying this. I will continue. In fact I am nowhere near finished. I haven't been consistent about this over the last couple of weeks and then my chromebook needed to be replaced. I only just got a new one and hope to continue this thread this weekend after I work on painting our living room on Saturday and Sunday.
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Post by darkormex on Oct 4, 2020 4:29:29 GMT
Sorry for my absence. I got my new laptop several days ago and have been here off and on but not posting because I have not had time to work on stamps. I haven't forgotten this thread, however, so let's start again with these, the only stamps from Malta I found in this kiloware lot. They are two copies of Sc. 596, depicting Artistic Achievement from what looks like a large definitive set called the History of Maltese Industry according the Stampworld.com listing. This is an attractive, colorful series of stamps that I would not mind having more of. The postmark is not legible except for a few stray lines and the two stamps apparently pay some sort of international postcard rate from Malta. This is a fragment of a postcard, and you can clearly see it was addressed to a Mr. and Mrs. J. Graham. Beyond that I can't tell you anything...you will have to use your imagination on this one. $50.29
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Post by darkormex on Oct 4, 2020 19:01:09 GMT
I have never thought of this stamp as being ever used postally in it's country of origin. I always assumed it was simply created for the CTO collector's market but apparently I was wrong. This is Rwanda, Sc. 771. In the past I owned the full set of these and later overprints, Sc. 836-843. This was early in my stamp collecting career when I was getting approvals from either HE Harris or Mystic. I say this looks like it is postally used however, it is possible that this piece was cut from an FDC or similar type of collectible. The postmark is illegible. $50.54
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Post by darkormex on Oct 4, 2020 19:36:36 GMT
I feel like the Scandinavian countries are under-represented in this kiloware lot. I posted stamps from Denmark earlier and later I will post stamps from Sweden which is probably the most well represented but you will see that even so, there are not a lot of stamps from any of these countries. This is actually a bit disappointing because I actively collect all of them. Oh well... This 3.50k small format definitive from the series of stamps depicting Lighthouses was issued in 1983. The Sc. no. is 724. The cancel/postmark is mostly illegible but you can see an envelope and several letters of the text. My guess is it is a suggestion to use postal codes or properly address letters or some similar recommendation to the public. Perhaps some of our members know and can help with this. I have several from this series and, in fact, this will be a dupe for me but still good trading material. This attractive stamp is from the series of port city bicentennials and this one was issued in 1989. It depicts the city of Hammerfest and again, is poorly cancelled but will be a nice addition to my collection. I have the companion stamp issued at that time, the 3k stamp depicting Vardo but the space next to it for this stamp, Sc. 939 is empty. All of the stamps on this piece were issued for the European Conservation Year, 1970. The 2 60o depicting Pulsatilla vernalis, which looks very much like a crocus and the 40o wolf all catalogue for single digit dollar amounts though they all have minor condition problems. The postmark is from the town of Drammen which also happens to be a port and river city. We also have a legible date of May 2, 1970 if I am reading this correctly, assuming the date pattern is day-month-year. Correct me please if I am wrong. And, finally, and this will be another dupe for me, is this relatively recent stamp issued in 2001 depicting a carved bird-shaped drinking vessel. This is a self-adhesive stamp issued as a coil and is Sc. 1305. Another stamp with a large catalogue value. $62.44
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Post by darkormex on Oct 4, 2020 22:23:02 GMT
Hong Kong is one of my favorite countries to collect and this particular bird series is one of my favorite bird sets. The two stamps on this piece are the 10c White-bellied Sea Eagle, Sc. 1229 and the $1 Common kingfisher, Sc. 1232. There are a couple of souvenir sheets and a miniature sheet associated with this set of definitives that I would love to have and I don't have any of the coils but I thought I would show you a scan of my page from my album. I have been looking for a definitive set to make a little specialized collection and I feel like I may have found it. I need to explore some of the auction/sales sites and see what is available. Another definitive set from Hong Kong that I really like is the 2002 Eastern and Western Cultures series. This stamp is Sc. 1008 showing sailboats and a dragon boat and it is unfortunately a space filler as it seems to have been cut badly from a sheet of stamps but here it is nonetheless. It did not seem to get a cancellation strike. Also, here is my page from my album. Another attractive set that has accompanying souvenir sheets and booklets. I would love to complete this at some point. Finally, Hong Kong stamps are represented by this stamp issued in 1983 and it is a photo of Hong Kong by night. I actually have a similar photo of my wife and I standing with our backs to a the Hong Kong skyline by night. One year after we married, my wife and I went to Hong Kong on our 1st anniversary to visit one of my wife's friends and former colleagues. Her name was Ms. Choi and she had moved to Hong Kong from Korea several years prior to our marriage when the company my wife and she worked for shuttered their offices. The Sc. no. is 415. $64.04
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Post by darkormex on Oct 5, 2020 1:16:38 GMT
I am going to sort out and look at the French stamps in my kiloware and post about them here and at the tail end I will be cross-posting in the France area of the board and doing a sort of these bad boys girls, the Marianne definitive series that straddles the currency change from Francs to Euros. This is a fairly complicated bit of id work here and if you take a look at the Scott Catalogue you will see what I mean. I think it will be interesting to put together a thread that sorts out the Francs from the Euros, the denominated and non-denominated, the self-adhesive and lick and stick and the LA POSTE and the RF.
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Post by darkormex on Oct 11, 2020 3:41:41 GMT
I am getting this post up tonight as a promise to myself to continue tomorrow evening. It has been a busy week for me and I haven't been able to keep up like I had planned by continuing with the French stamps in the lot. So, here we go with this pair of stamps issued in 1976 and part of the long-running series of large format commemoratives featuring art. I don't know what others think about these stamps but I have always found them very attractive like a lot of stamps from that 60s and 70s period of engraved issues. I think these two are especially interesting because they feature not only art pieces but art created in pre-history. I have a fondness for archaeology related subjects on stamps. The Scott no. for these two stamps is 1465. $65.24 The postmarks are not legible unfortunately but the stamps, once soaked from paper, look as if they are in fine or better condition which to me is surprising. I had to look for more information regarding the figure depicted on these stamps and I found it here on this Wikipedia page.... Venus of Brassempouy
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Post by Bas S Warwick on Oct 11, 2020 9:20:24 GMT
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Being a fan of kiloware this is a very interesting thread darkormex
Waiting and watching for your New Zealand finds.
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Post by darkormex on Oct 11, 2020 18:04:07 GMT
Bas S Warwick, once I get through France I will try to work on NZ next. There are a few!
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Post by darkormex on Oct 11, 2020 18:21:23 GMT
I put these three on-piece items on the stock page for scanning purposes without realizing that I actually had both the perf and the die-cut varieties of this stamp. These stamps were issued in 1999 and commemorate the introduction of the Euro. I think it is fairly obvious that these are definitives and they have the denomination in both Francs and Euros. The stamp on the left is the perf. 13 example, Sc. 2691 and the middle and right-most stamps are Sc.2691A, serpentine die cut 7. The perf example has only the wavy line cancellation whereas the two die-cut examples have relatively nice postmarks. The middle stamp was postmarked in Noisy le Sec, on September 27, 1999 and the right-most stamp was postmarked in St. Galmier on March 24, 1999. It has been interesting looking for city and town names as well as departments of France. Wikipedia has been a great resource and I have been down the rabbit hole learning more about the cities and towns I have been looking up. $65.99
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Post by darkormex on Oct 11, 2020 18:37:46 GMT
Quite a few nice examples of the various Marianne definitives in this mix including these noted as Sabine after David in the Scott Catalogue. Starting from the left is 1,20 franc value, Sc. 1664, issued in 1980 and also the same denomination, on-piece, issued earlier in 1977 in red, Sc. 1572. The on-piece stamps on the right have a nice cancellation which is possibly a date of January 16, 1980. This is a clear Strasbourg cancellation though I don't know what the R.P. stands for in this cancel. Can anyone enlighten me? The 0,80 value was issued in 1977 and is Sc. 1569 and is a nice olive color, the 1,30 value was issued in 1979 and is Sc. no. 1665. $66.99
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Post by darkormex on Oct 11, 2020 18:56:49 GMT
Let's keep going with Marianne definitives. In 1967 a more limited series of stamps was issued with a portrait by Henry Cheffer. The green 30 centime value issued in 1969 is a pretty common stamp and these two examples are noted in the Scott Cat as no. 1230. I was able to piece together the postmark from the two partial strikes as being from St. Girons with a date of April 4, 1970.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Oct 11, 2020 19:22:18 GMT
This is a clear Strasbourg cancellation though I don't know what the R.P. stands for in this cancel. Can anyone enlighten me? The R.P. stands for "Recette Principale". The formal definition (from the La Poste website) is: "Bureau central de plein exercice installé dans le chef-lieu d'un département et exécutant toutes les opérations postales", i.e. central post office installed in the department's administrative center executing all postal operations. So this is the main Strasbourg post office where all Bas-Rhin (Lower-Rhine, département #67) is collected and processed before dispatch.
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Post by darkormex on Oct 11, 2020 21:15:55 GMT
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Post by darkormex on Oct 11, 2020 22:43:19 GMT
The Marianne definitives of 1990, referred to on Colnect as Marianne of Briat, are some of my favorites and this kiloware mix had several and of various denominations. These are in no particular order so here is the first. I find the Scott Catalogue could do a better job of identifying the non-denominated and die-cut stamps within these series. I always feel I have to use process of elimination or have an additional source at my side in order to confirm that I have indeed identified the correct stamp. The stamp on the left, Sc. 2348, issued in 1993 is like that. Scott lists a number of die cuts and only one that seemingly fits the bill, but, I still am not sure...what is the difference between "Serpentine Die Cut Vert." and "Serpentine Die Cut 6 3/4 Vert." does the former not have measurable points? Anyway, Colnect, finally helped me to identify it correctly or, at least confirm what I had deduced from the Scott Catalogue. It also identifies other variations of this same stamp that are not identified in Scott. The postmark is illegible on this stamp, unfortunately. Also, I can tell you from experience that these are impossible to soak from paper though a complete soaking in Pure Citrus will do the job, but even then it is not easy. Be forewarned and be careful. Also below are 2 copies of Scott 2179, one of 2181 and one of 2182 postmarked with a Paris postmark dated on the 29th of some month in some year not shown. The combination of colors on this piece are attractive to me. I would have loved to have received this piece of mail in my box from France. $68.74
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