Graham's Mixed Lot Treasure Hunt

Graham

these appear to be all fairly common issues-  the perforation may be the main 'plus" depending on what each is (and the early Austrian stamps have many different perfd... I've always wondered if they were experimenting, or there was no particular though when the perf/pin devices were made...)

top row middle- may well be a perf stamp trimmed to look imperf, or maybe an actual imperf, or I don't references in fromt of me, it may be from postal stationary

2nd row left 1 piaster (pistre)  Turkish Post Office
             far right - Hermes-  interesting cancellation,  too bad the stamp is poorly cut 

2nd page

nice group of what appear to be mint hinged, but also pretty common, I see some staining and a bent/short corner on a couple

Overall not a bad lot, but no early retirement here!

Cheers

Stan

Hi Stan (stainlessb) Thanks again for your observations and knowledge. I only have a basic world catalogue so I will have to have a search to see if that is likely to be an imperf stamp. I will pull it and have a look at the rear also. I did notice the telegraph postmark but don’t know it’s significance. Maybe they had a combined telegraph and post office that had that unique cancel. I have a couple more of the Hermes imperfs in the coming pages.

Cheers

Graham

Top left , nice color but cut close, can't tell exactly if bottom outer borderline is complete-  1 Kreutzer blue is nice!

bottom left..dang if only they'd left the top margin! (far right looks nice) Newspapers 2,3 & 4  , 2 left nice, #4 bottom 'trimmed" (also quite common, although some are so nice I suspect maybe reprints)

next scan SOLDI indicates - lower row left, not real clear, but Ottoman or Lombardy-Venetia  - Lower row left not real clear, but likely early Austria (~1860's)

bottom scan  left Austrin Right SOLDI

a nice start!

For this Graham you should study the postage stamp and this page.

But no, ... these stamps are a little more familiar to me, that's all Stanley.


I wear eyeglasses all day, .. and I read catalogs with a large magnifying glass ubiquitous on my desk....

These newspaper taxes need to be studied carefully.

Thanks very much for all the info stainlessb rex and vikingeck I will scan some of those for a closer look. The catalogue pages are great and I will have to study those as well.

Austrian post offices in the east 1888
1 plastra on 10k. light blue. My Unified Catalog values ​​it 5.00euro if perf. 13 and 1/2 1000euro.
You don't have bad material, it just needs to be studied.

Stamps for newspapers, mercury head 1867. If my tired eyes do not deceive me, your copy belongs to type II, my Unified Catalog 2019-2020 values ​​it at 50.00euro. I think you have acquired a good material, which could give you some satisfactions as well as a good philatelic study and a lot of fun.
Enjoy me a lot !!

1883 Levante.
5 soldi red 30.00euro
20 soldi gray  15.00euro.

Hi rex and thanks again for the great info. What I am doing with this thread really is giving people the opportunity to discover gems with me rather than me looking them all up as it gives me a lot of enjoyment learning about them from other people who are knowledgeable in the different countries. I have a full set of 2012 Stanley gibbons catalogue of the world which gives me an idea which ones are worth investigating but as you say it’s well worth getting specialised catalogues for the countries you collect. As I seem to have a lot of Austrian stamps it may be worth my while getting a more specialised catalogue. I mainly collect GB and have all the specialised catalogues. I have started to accumulate a lot of German stamps and USA so I may have to ask Father Christmas for some catalogues. 

Regards

Graham

The best thing would be to take the specialized catalogs in the language of the country, .. German area the Michel, French area Yvert & Tellier, Italian area Sassone etc .. etc .., obviously this requires a translation effort and an economic effort. I still believe that the Stanley Gibbons are great catalogs with the advantage of the English language but they are still as expensive as the others. A good second hand could be a solution, however the more specialized the catalogs the greater the fun, at least for me.

The google translator is a great tool and you'll be amazed how quickly you start to pick up the language and suddenly the pages are full of invaluable information.  The used catalogues are quite affordable and as your stamps are all earlier issues quite adequate* (and often the shipping is as much or more than the cata;ogue itself).  E-Bay is good, as is Amazon, and if you have patirnce to scroll through  lots of catalogues bibliobooks.com is great!

* the newer editions may have updated information pertinent to the earlier issues, but much of that can be gleaned elsewhere

Apologies in advance for all the pictures here but this is the last of the stock book pages. There’s some Hungary scattered around there but as before I haven’t researched these yet. I’ve also been in touch with my lad who lives in Germany so he’s now in the lookout for some Michel catalogues for me.