sudbury12000
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Posts: 315
What I collect: Canada, Great Britain, Germany, World Pre 1925
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Post by sudbury12000 on Jan 2, 2023 2:10:39 GMT
Greetings all, and Happy New Year! I just received these in the post last week. I do like to collect used stamps, and finding them from New Republic is challenging to say the least.  |
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Post by uppercanadian on Jan 3, 2023 18:13:11 GMT
Hi Sudbury,
I am sure it was a challenge. Congratulations on a wonderful find!!
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zipper
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What I collect: Classic GB, QV, France Ceres/Napoleon, Classic U.S., Cinderella & Poster Stamps
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Post by zipper on Jan 3, 2023 19:58:36 GMT
I've never seen those. Very cool. Thanks for showing them.
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Post by clivel on Jan 3, 2023 23:48:08 GMT
sudbury12000 thanks for sharing your New Republic stamps. The short-lived Boer republic of New Republic was proclaimed in 1884 and existed until uniting with the Transvaal in July 1888. The stamps were issued on either blue granite paper or on yellow paper as per your examples. Some issues were also embossed. The actual date of each printing was embedded into the design prior to February to 1887 as seen on your 1 shilling example. About 16 or so different denominations of these stamps were issued, ranging in value from 1d to 30 shillings resulting in Stanley Gibbons assigning 95 major catalogue numbers. Given that these stamps were not valid outside of New Republic it is likely that the higher denominations were possibly produced for the collector market.
Forgeries of all values are known. Genuine stamps can be identified by the full stop after the A in AFRIKA, and by the split top horizontal line of the first E in REPUBLIEK which would indicate that both your stamps are probably genuine.
Clive
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Post by dgdecker on Jan 4, 2023 4:25:34 GMT
Thanks for sharing.
as I collect “Dead” country stamps this is a new one for me.
i hoped they are affordable.
David
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angore
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What I collect: WW, focus on British Empire
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Post by angore on Jan 4, 2023 11:02:17 GMT
I would expect lots of forgeries for these early issues.
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sudbury12000
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Posts: 315
What I collect: Canada, Great Britain, Germany, World Pre 1925
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Post by sudbury12000 on Jan 4, 2023 17:57:19 GMT
I was also concerned about the authenticity of these stamps, but as said by Clive, these seemed to be legit. These stamps were picked up for about $20USD. There are very few that are affordable, for me at least!
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