pricing some 1951 souvenir sheets
Jan 28, 2022 14:44:29 GMT
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Post by adamgarfinkle on Jan 28, 2022 14:44:29 GMT
As the image here hopefully shows, in 1951 the Portuguese authorities created Holy Year extension souvenir sheets for the colonies, as a kind of omnibus item. Scott doesn't list them; it merely notes their existence where Common Design types are discussed in the introduction to the catalog. Ebay lately has advertised an imperf variety of one of the sheets for $29, but as can be seen, these are perforated. I would like to get an idea of the market price for these; anyone happen to know?
Just bye the bye, I find these interesting, and as far as I am aware no other European colonial power did anything quite like this. It clearly confused the folks at Scott, who list only country-by-country and hence could not readily handle an omnibus item like these. Minkus resorted to calling Portuguese Africa "Portuguese Colonies" in order to include them, but Timor and Macao, as well as Goa (Port. India), are not in Africa, so this was awkward. Anyway....back to the point: Anyone have a catalog that lists prices for these, please?
Just bye the bye, I find these interesting, and as far as I am aware no other European colonial power did anything quite like this. It clearly confused the folks at Scott, who list only country-by-country and hence could not readily handle an omnibus item like these. Minkus resorted to calling Portuguese Africa "Portuguese Colonies" in order to include them, but Timor and Macao, as well as Goa (Port. India), are not in Africa, so this was awkward. Anyway....back to the point: Anyone have a catalog that lists prices for these, please?
