Big Blue 1840-1940 Stamp blog

As some are aware, I collect "Jam Jar labels" aka Dune Stamps etc.
I also collect "Cinderellas"
This has been going on for 12-15 years.

Last weekend, I bought a nice collection of Luxembourg for $8.72
I lost out on "Mongolia"  my estimate $23  Sold for $47
I lost out on a Cinderella Page of Sundry my estimate $18   Sold for $72

I don't buy for investment, but prices rising so rapidly does effect what I purchase,
I'll have to assess where I stand with Salvador, they are in a shoebox right now.

bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/2015/08/StampsofSamoa-1900-1952.html

The Tripartite Convention of 1899 divided the Samoan archipelago into two parts: the eastern group (Tutuila with the important harbor of Pago Pago, and Manu'a) became a U.S. protectorate and territory, while the larger land mass western group ( Upolu with Apia Harbor, Savai'i) became German Samoa.

With the onset of WW I, the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (at the request of Great Britain) invaded unopposed on August 29, 1914. Germany had no armed forces on the islands.

bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/2015/09/ClassicalStampsofSarawak.html

Ever have a desire to be a King (Rajah) of your own Country? Perhaps the next best thing is indulge in the stamps and history of the Kingdom of Sarawak and the Brooke dynasty.

bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/2015/09/ClassicalStampsofSaxony.html

The Kingdom of Saxony lasted between 1806 and 1918, although the Kingdom existed as a more slender state after 1815 (Prussia took the rest), and then joined the German Empire in 1871.

A historical tidbit... Because the Kings of Saxony accepted the crown of Poland in 1697 (This lasted until 1763), they remained Roman Catholic, although the citizens of Saxony were 95% Protestant.

bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/2015/09/StampsofSchleswig-Holstein.html

The Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein were located between Denmark and Germany on the southern Jutland peninsula. The area served as an important transfer point for goods and materials between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.

As one can imagine, there developed conflict between the two nations over "ownership" of the lands.

bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/2015/10/Stampsofsenegambia-niger.html

Senegambia & Niger was a short lived administrative French possession territory in West Africa between 1902-04, when it was consolidated with a part of (earlier era) French Sudan territory to become Upper Senegal and Niger.

Senegambia & Niger stamp output is short and sweet: the "Navigation and Commerce" issue of thirteen stamps produced in 1903.

Hello Rod-

I can't believe I found a "dead country" you didn't know about. 

bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/2015/10/ClassicStampsofSerbia.html

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo by the Black Hand of Serbia triggered a chain of events that enmeshed all the major European powers, and WW I began.

During WW I, Serbia provided the first Allied victory in 1914, but by 1915 it was occupied by Austro-Hungarian, German, and Bulgarian troops.

Austrian Occupation stamps were issued in 1916.

In 1918, Serbia merged with Montenegro, then joined with the (unrecognized) State of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to form a new Pan-Slavic state: the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia).

Serbia was the leading actor, and the new Kingdom was ruled by the Serbian monarchy.

jkjblue
Nice work Jim!
How did you capture the watermarks. please?

bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/2015/11/ClassicStampsofShanghai.html

The Chinese government allowed a number of ports ("Treaty Ports") to be opened for foreign trade between 1842-1860. Shanghai became the leading port, with British, French, and American settlements established in 1843, or shortly after.

bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/2015/11/ClassicalStampsofSierra-Leone.html

Sierra Leone ("Lioness Mountains"- Portuguese/Spanish) is located on the tropical West African coast between French Guinea (now Guinea) and Liberia.

Under British protection, freed African-American slaves were transported to Sierra Leone in 1787 after the American Revolutionary War, and founded Granville Town. Ironically, but not surprising, the settlement was opposed by the indigenous Temne and Mende peoples.

Freetown was founded on March 11, 1792 with the settlement of 1,200 Black Loyalists, who came via Nova Scotia.

Beginning in 1808, following the British Empire's abolition of the slave trade in 1807, thousands of liberated people from confiscated slave ships were brought to Freetown.

The Sierra Leone Company, formed by abolitionists, then turned the territory over to the African Institution in 1807 (recognized by the British Crown).

bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/2015/11/ClassicStampsofsomali-coast-french-somaliland.html

Somali Coast ("Djibouti", "French Somaliland") was a French protectorate and colony in the Horn of Africa on the Gulf of Tadjourna between the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea.

Stamps were released in 1894 on overprinted/surcharged stamps of Obock.

Initially the stamps were labeled "Djibouti", but the name was changed to French Somali Coast in 1902 ("Cote Francaise Des Somalis"), or "French Somaliland".

bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/2015/12/union-of-south-africa-part-i.html

The former British southern African colonies of Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Transvaal, and the Orange River Colony became provinces within the new Union of South Africa on May 31, 1910. This was enabled by the 1909 South Africa Act by the British Parliament. Of interest, Rhodesia was also offered a future admission ticket, but this was rejected by the Southern Rhodesia colonists in a referendum in 1922.

The main course of this blog post (and the next one): the English-Afrikaans Se-Tenant pair issues of 1926-1954 (Scott 23-67). I consider the presentation to be at the introductory- intermediate level. By no means is it exhaustive, or at the level of the specialist. The presentation also is based on the Scott catalogue- therefore a bit simplified- but I will provide some additional reference to the Stanley Gibbons.

I will cover the 1/2p, 1p, and 6p denominations for this Part I post. They were initially issued in 1926 as typographed; later issues were photogravure (rotogravure).

The remaining Se-Tenant 1927-1954 issues, either engraved or using photogravure, will be covered in the Part II post at a later date.

bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/2015/12/ClassicStampsofSouthAustralia.html

The colony South Australia was proclaimed on December 28, 1836, intended for free immigrants, rather than a convict settlement. Much of the colony was arid or semi-arid, and the capital, (Port) Adelaide, was where most people settled, and to a lesser extent, along the south-eastern coast and the Murray River..

Stamps were printed in 1855 by London's Perkins Bacon, and, from the same plates in 1856, locally, by Printer of Stamps, Adelaide.