bjornbelgium
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Post by bjornbelgium on Jan 4, 2023 17:30:44 GMT
Got myself a little something for determining the 10% stamps... Happy   |
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jan 4, 2023 18:22:36 GMT
Outstanding! That was a catalogue I always hoped to find back in my days of endless purchasing, but I never found a copy ...
Ryan
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cjoprey
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Scanning stamps for my website...
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What I collect: Belgium (predominantly), British Commonwealth (older ones), WW (whatever comes my way...)
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Post by cjoprey on Jan 4, 2023 18:32:25 GMT
Ah - the "Van Acker" surcharged stamps. I wasn't aware of that book - will need to go Google!  |
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Post by david on Jan 4, 2023 22:31:53 GMT
That is a great find!
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bjornbelgium
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Post by bjornbelgium on Jan 8, 2023 16:14:34 GMT
Here are some of my overprints: I show you mine, you show me yours   
The Poortman on the right has a fake overprint triangle... since the cancellation states 1938... The rest are valid. |
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ameis33
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Post by ameis33 on Jan 8, 2023 16:19:14 GMT
For those like me who doesn’t know what the -10% is… ok, just for me… what the -10% overprint is?
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cjoprey
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Post by cjoprey on Jan 8, 2023 16:52:46 GMT
After WW2, Belgium had a currency devaluation (as did the Netherlands). As they couldn't afford to reprint all the stamps, a law was passed that all stamps had to have a "-10%" overprint applied by the post offices. As this law was driven by minister Achiel Van Acker they ended up being referred to as the "Van Acker series".
This rule was in force between 16 May 1946 and 14 Dec 1948. Stamps bought before that time could be taken to the post office (had to be at least 20 stamps per lot) to be overprinted with the devaluation.
Over 2200 different stamp & overprint combos are known.
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cjoprey
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Post by cjoprey on Jan 9, 2023 2:06:49 GMT
Here's some of mine, all from 1946 (note the COB codes are per stamp type, not per overprint type - except for the last 3 which are a specific overprint type): COB #724D:  COB #724F:  COB #724N:  COB #724Q:  COB #724R:  COB #724S:  COB #724T:  |
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tobben63
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Post by tobben63 on Jan 9, 2023 8:19:21 GMT
After WW2, Belgium had a currency devaluation (as did the Netherlands). As they couldn't afford to reprint all the stamps, a law was passed that all stamps had to have a "-10%" overprint applied by the post offices. As this law was driven by minister Achiel Van Acker they ended up being referred to as the "Van Acker series". This rule was in force between 16 May 1946 and 14 Dec 1948. Stamps bought before that time could be taken to the post office (had to be at least 20 stamps per lot) to be overprinted with the devaluation. Over 2200 different stamp & overprint combos are known. Thanks for that information. I have a lot of these stamps, but really don't know the reason for this overprint. Very useful information. thanks cjoprey |
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stainlessb
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qaStaHvIS yIn 'ej chep
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What I collect: currently focused on most of western Europe, much of which is spent on France, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain Queen Victoria
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Post by stainlessb on Jan 9, 2023 15:47:37 GMT
 holy cow over 2200! I have 5 (though I may have to go back through the Varios and see if there are more that i just didn't catch |
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bjornbelgium
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Post by bjornbelgium on Jan 9, 2023 16:32:24 GMT
holy cow over 2200! I have 5 (though I may have to go back through the Varios and see if there are more that i just didn't catch There could very well be more than 2200, in an old catalog that I have here, numbers reach into the thousands and it stops at the 'H'... I'll post a pic later.. |
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alymegoli
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Post by alymegoli on Jan 10, 2023 15:32:11 GMT
Thanks for all these informations. I didn't know the historic reason of -10%. I got only 2 on my side.  |
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bjornbelgium
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Post by bjornbelgium on Jan 10, 2023 20:36:02 GMT
Thanks for all these informations. I didn't know the historic reason of -10%. I got only 2 on my side. The first one is a printed one (done at the official printing presses in Mechelen) the second one is not listed in the little book... |
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bjornbelgium
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Post by bjornbelgium on Jan 10, 2023 21:22:30 GMT
Another nine on the investigation table...  |
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bjornbelgium
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Post by bjornbelgium on Jan 10, 2023 22:17:08 GMT
It's going well, next batch: I figured most of them out...  |
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drjoe
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Post by drjoe on Jan 14, 2023 21:44:00 GMT
After WW2, Belgium had a currency devaluation (as did the Netherlands). As they couldn't afford to reprint all the stamps, a law was passed that all stamps had to have a "-10%" overprint applied by the post offices. As this law was driven by minister Achiel Van Acker they ended up being referred to as the "Van Acker series". This rule was in force between 16 May 1946 and 14 Dec 1948. Stamps bought before that time could be taken to the post office (had to be at least 20 stamps per lot) to be overprinted with the devaluation. Over 2200 different stamp & overprint combos are known. Putting together my 20 yr accumulation of Belgium (etc) non-Scott listed. Couldn't help but note that Scott does list 3 stamps w/ the -10% discount rate ovpt on #355, 357 & 360 as #365-367 but not on any of the other issues. Have a good variety of the various types of ovpts on #279,286,289,Lion Rampant issue,294,296 & 301. Any ideas out there as to why Scott would only list the 3 stamps and none of the others? |
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cjoprey
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Post by cjoprey on Jan 14, 2023 22:01:51 GMT
COB's #724R, #724S and #724T are the equivalents of Scott's #365-367. These ones were officially overprinted at the "Atelier du Timbre" in Malines, whereas all the others were manually overprinted by postal workers in the post offices. I suspect that's why the official ones are the only three in most catalogs.
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drjoe
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Post by drjoe on Jan 17, 2023 17:40:16 GMT
Thanks for the insight. Perhaps as you noted the official ovpts are recognized with the local ones being too numerous to list in Scott and left to the specialty catalogs. This does occur with other stamp issues especially ovpts and understood.
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