Romania : 1922 - 1932

1932 Revenue
Directiunea Generala a drumurilor   (Highways Construction)

Exist:
2L50  Purple
5 Lei red
25 Lei Orange
50 Lei Yellowish green

Exist also overprinted "FM" (1934)

CV : Circa $5 each

Good stuff!

Forgery ID (genuine stamp shown)
(Author's assumption only)
1. dot missing between Romania and 1933.
2. Waves under bridge do not meet walls
3. Lines on Lion's mane indistinct.
4. Would assume no Wmk

1932 November 20th
King Carol 2
Exposition Bucharest  EFIRO
International Philatelic Exhibition Bucharest
Issued : 50,000 Blocks
Michel 449 Block 1, Sc B40
Unwatermarked. Imperf
Exist :
with Expo cancellation
"N" of  NOEMVRIE  broken at top

CV : Dips and rises around $60

Each holder of a Exh ticket could buy a copy : 20 Lei

Information appreciation : romaniastamps.com

My crinkly one :

Rod,  Here is a comparison of the Mail Coach issue.
  The first thing I look at is the second curve from the end of the whip.
On the forgeries it forms a very circular form compared to the original which is more
pointy.  There are so many other differences tha I did not bother showing them as a picture, in this case really does say a thousand words.



I do have quite a large stock of <a href=http://mitch.seymourfamily.com/mward/collection/europe/romania/romania.html>Romania</a> which I have never broken into for sale or trade.  If you would like to do some trading let me know I may have something you need.

Romania along with Bulgaria and Hungary are my favorite Eastern European countries, but I do find them hard to stomach after 1960.

Do you have a URL for the work that was lost?

Rod, you say you have mint up til 1990, I'm not sure what that means? Sounds like you are complete mint up to 1990 which I rather doubt. Does it mean you only collect mint thru 1990?
Either way it would greatly limit what I might have.

Rod,  Message me your needlist thru 1955 and I'll see what I can come up with.
Please if it is in anything but wordpad or notepad convert it into either so that I will be able to read it.  A cut and paste should be all you need to do.

Rod, If I don't show it on my site then count on me not having it.
Your collection must be much better than mine so making a list would be a waste of your time.

Yes, you should make a wantlist at least for yourself.  I cannot understand how anyone could  get far without one unless of course they have a photographic memory.  I do actually know a collector with a photographic memory and he has an extensive wantlist.  I have spent over a thousand hours making up wantlist for at least 90% of the world that I collect.  It was worth every minute and I could not possibly do what I want to without them.
Please have a look at my collection so you can see where I am at. 
mitch.seymourfamily.com/mward/collection/europe/romania/romania.html
and here:  mitch.seymourfamily.com/mward/collection/europe/romania/romaniabob.html

I probably have 90% of what is shown in dupes.
Thinking about bidding on a Vlad sheet this weekend.

Congratulations! that is a nice example, some suffer from bad perforations, bottom row.

Designed by S Zainea
30,000 copies issued
One of the desirables in the Romanian catalogue. No known varieties, yet I have seen some on ebay, and which I cannot find in my database.

Seen them listed as high as GBP85 in GB.

Sell fast on ebay.

"Fortunately, I do not share your bias, there is not a piece of perforated paper in existence that I dislike enough to refuse,
I make no judgements,  if it's there, it's collectible,  I rejoice in the absolute freedom that offers, life's too short to be discriminating. (Apart from the wallet  "

Rod......I consider that probably 75% of all modern outputs are just that print as many as will sell to dealers then make another set for them, of course little to none will ever be used in the mail system
I just do not care for what I consider to be a shabby side to Philately.  I have noticed that some appear to collect them just to add to their tally of the number of stamps they have,  wow.   People collect what they like, for the most part, and I certainly wish them fun doing it.  However, if someone asks for my opinion I don't dance around. 
One thing I learned on the web is that collecting used phone cards is much more popular than stamp collecting,  at least in the "top sites" ratings. 

If I was specializing in a country like Romania I would most certainly include new issues.  On the other hand It is rather hard to specialize the whole world.  There are many countries that I am expanding to 2000 and also going more specialized in some of the earlier issues of many countries.  Eastern Europe (excluding Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and several Russian breakaways), most of South America, dunes, independent African Nations and many Island nations will not be among them.

I picked up a lot of Early Romanians on specialized pages last year.  Are you familiar with the pages below (a front and backside)?  If so can you tell me what numbering system they are using?   Scott does not even come close to listing the myriad of variants in the King Carol issues.  My pages on these are overstuffed right now and I also have a few stock sheets with other variants, all awaiting additional pages whenever I figure out the layout.

<img src=http://mitch.seymourfamily.com/mward/collection/romaniapage.jpg>

Here is just one page,  of one design "Vulturi" from the Bible.

Rod, if in your travels you happen to find another copy of that Romanian catalogue, please let me know. There's a gap in my bookshelf for a specialized Romanian catalogue. I've found Czech, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, even Azerbaijani (!!! - ok, it's not specialized, just a listing), but I've never seen that Romanian one anywhere.

Ryan