angore
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Post by angore on Feb 6, 2018 16:23:15 GMT
I have not made it to checking if I have any New Zealand issues. It was the golden period for nice engraved issues.
I never realized how few issues came from the British Commonwealth period, By 1940, the Scott was at 900 for US and around 200 or so for countries like Australia.
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Beryllium Guy
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Post by Beryllium Guy on Feb 6, 2018 23:55:42 GMT
I have not made it to checking if I have any New Zealand issues. It was the golden period for nice engraved issues. I never realized how few issues came from the British Commonwealth period, By 1940, the Scott was at 900 for US and around 200 or so for countries like Australia. This is an interesting point, Al, but with all due respect, comparing the U.S. issues with Australia to 1940 is not at all an "apples-to-apples" situation. That is because Australia only started issuing stamps as a Commonwealth in 1913, whereas the U.S. started issuing stamps in 1847, a difference of 66 years. Given that difference, it does not seem at all surprising, at least to me, that the U.S. issued 900 stamps over 93 years (1847-1940) and Australia issued 200 stamps over 27 years (1913-1940), if we are counting just up to 1940. I have not checked any of the other British Commonwealth countries over the same period, but I think I am on pretty solid ground with regards to Australia compared to U.S. |
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angore
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Post by angore on Feb 8, 2018 12:32:34 GMT
BG,
Look at Great Britain. The last Scott number of the KGVI era (1952) is 291. SG lists more but KGVI Coronation issue is SG461 so still around half as many major number issues. The US put out more issues due to all those commemoratives that GB and the colonies did not.
Al
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