zeebanker
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Post by zeebanker on Nov 13, 2019 3:27:40 GMT
Hi, I'm sorting through a box of stamps that I recently acquired and need help identifying some stamps and an envelope. The stamps either have no country name or something in a language that I've not been able to identify and google. The envelope looks to be a pre-paid letter that can be folded and mailed. Its from India and looks to be Queen Victoria, but I cannot place the timing of the envelope, or identify it or read the cancels.
Appreciate all and any help!
Please let me know if I've contravened some uploading rules - this is my first time!
Thanks and looking forward to learning more about these mysteries in my collection.
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coastwatcher
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Post by coastwatcher on Nov 13, 2019 4:25:21 GMT
Here’s a few I can help you with. I don’t know the Scott numbers for the individual stamps and it’s too late to do much digging.
2 Spain War Tax Stamp
4 Spain
5 Austria Postage Due
6 Bosnia & Herzegovina
9 & 10 Russia Army of the North (there are a lot of forgeries out there)
Hope this helps.
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Post by khj on Nov 13, 2019 4:48:05 GMT
To add on to what coastwatcher already listed: 1 Belgium 3 Austria 7 Belgium 8 Austria (newspaper stamp) |
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Post by khj on Nov 13, 2019 5:33:12 GMT
9 & 10 Russia Army of the North (there are a lot of forgeries out there) I think coastwatcher meant to include stamp 11 as Russia Army of the North as well. All 3 of your stamps are genuine. |
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zeebanker
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Post by zeebanker on Nov 13, 2019 14:35:50 GMT
Thanks for the info coastwatcher and khj! Now that you said it, I can see "Wein" on #3, for Vienna. Doh!
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Post by zeebanker on Nov 13, 2019 14:36:22 GMT
Any thoughts on the India letter? When was it printed? What was it called?
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Nov 13, 2019 14:46:05 GMT
Items like this are called postal stationery. The first British one of these was the Mulready letter sheet and the Mulready envelope of 1840. and similar letter sheets evolved into the more familiar Airmail letter sheets of recent times
Your Indian Lettersheet has a stamp imprint with a face value of Half Anna for local postage, first issued in 1857 , and the date stamp of use in this case from VIZAGAPATAM seems to be Mar 1 1871 , so in use for quite a few years
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Post by zeebanker on Nov 13, 2019 20:01:06 GMT
Thank you vikingeck! Are you a Minnesota Vikings fan? I am  |
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Nov 13, 2019 20:45:23 GMT
Minnesota  ?? I’m not even in America ! I’m 75% Celtic Scot 25% Viking 😄 |
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Post by rjan55 on Nov 13, 2019 22:24:23 GMT
The only thing I can add to @ identification above is #2-Spain is war tax; and #4-Spain is a telegraph use punch which diminishes its value.
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Nov 13, 2019 22:47:52 GMT
The Spain War Tax stamp #2 was issued to help pay for the 1898 Spanish American war.
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Post by zeebanker on Nov 14, 2019 15:58:47 GMT
Awesome, thank you all for your replies. I have several more unidentified stamps that I'll scan and send your way for help with identification. This forum is awesome!
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renden
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Post by renden on Feb 6, 2020 20:53:26 GMT
Here I go - hope I am not lazy - our help with Cat #s for the first 2 on the left (Syria) Scott=0 - No clue on the 2 on the right !! Thanks René  |
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Post by Londonbus1 on Feb 6, 2020 22:17:02 GMT
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renden
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Post by renden on Feb 6, 2020 23:17:03 GMT
renden ........looks like you have 3 revenue stamps and a TB Charity label which looks very propaganda-like ! Thanks Michael (LB1) !! Great help I appreciate - René The Charity stamp would therefore be a Cinderella ?? |
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Post by renden on Feb 10, 2020 15:30:05 GMT
renden ........looks like you have 3 revenue stamps and a TB Charity label which looks very propaganda-like ! LB1 Londonbus1.....the Charity stamp....a Cinderella ?? Thanks |
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Post by vikingeck on Feb 10, 2020 16:23:29 GMT
Well it does not appear to have any postal function.
In my book Rene they are all 4 in the Cinderella category!
"Cinderella" covers any stamp-like label which is not a postage stamp
Revenues, Charity,( but not semipostals which have some postage function), Local issues, TB seals , Scout labels , Christmas seals, Propaganda labels, hotel stamps , telegraph stamps, tax labels, Airmail etiquettes etc etc are all different categories of Cinderella
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Post by renden on Feb 10, 2020 18:23:39 GMT
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Post by Londonbus1 on Feb 10, 2020 20:17:47 GMT
renden....sorry missed the second query. So you have an answer which I will confirm. I can add that the same label can be found from Lebanon too...with country name replaced. There may be others as yet unseen by me. Londonbus1
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Post by renden on Feb 10, 2020 20:21:03 GMT
renden ....sorry missed the second query. So you have an answer which I will confirm. I can add that the same label can be found from Lebanon too...with country name replaced. There may be others as yet unseen by me. Londonbus1 Thanks LB1 - 1 or more Cinderella(s)  I do not collect René |
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Post by renden on Feb 13, 2020 20:36:33 GMT
 Another Russia Stamp with overprint....but from which Country ? Thanks for the help ! Russia Sc 77 with overprint (but not in Russia, I think and not in South Russia) René |
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Post by khj on Feb 13, 2020 21:23:25 GMT
Scott Siberia #4(1919)
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vikingeck
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Post by vikingeck on Feb 13, 2020 21:47:04 GMT
The overprint , changes the value of the stamp from 4 kopek to
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Rouble
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renden
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Post by renden on Feb 14, 2020 16:22:12 GMT
Thanks khj and vikingeck (Alex). Had not found the stamp in my 2009 Scott but checked the 2019 Classic and it was there. I realized I had another copy and other stamps from Siberia in my Inventory (where I should have looked 1st !!) René
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Post by anglobob on Apr 22, 2020 12:40:00 GMT
I would like to know more about this item which was in a lot of cinderellas I purchased last year.The seller claimed it was French but I beieve it is either Dutch or Belgian.Looks like there is a Feldpost cancellation ? Any more information would be greatly appreciated.  |
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Post by stanley64 on Apr 22, 2020 13:19:07 GMT
Here you go anglobob :-)
According to this site, the stamp shown was issued to benefit the Flemish Waffen SS Legion on 23 December 1941, who were fighting in Russia on the Eastern Front - "Mourning the Ancient"
The stamps originally came in sheetlets of four and the breadth of material available for the issue is quite astounding including overprints, covers, etc...
Happy collecting!
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Post by anglobob on Apr 22, 2020 13:27:12 GMT
Stanley64.....
Great,thanks very much for your help.I really appreciate it !!!
Anglobob
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Post by salentin on Apr 22, 2020 15:30:13 GMT
If you have a Michel catalogue: the stamps are listed following to the chapter "Deutsche Besetzungsausgaben 1939/45 (Zara)" ((German Occupation Issues))
in the chapter "Private Ausgaben 1939/45" (private issues). The stamps were charity labels and had no franking value.However they could have been put on fieldpost-letters and exist cancelled.But as they had no franking value cancels have to be considered as c.t.o. Genuine private letters are very rare,but many forged cancellations are known.
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Post by anglobob on Apr 24, 2020 15:13:15 GMT
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Post by stainlessb on Apr 24, 2020 16:04:15 GMT
France stamp R F (opposite lower corners) which translates to Peasant worker's pension and then over print is War Permits (Permitaries?)- at the bottom it translates to Mixed Stamp 1918 Yvert & Teller EP 22  |
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