oskar1
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Post by oskar1 on Nov 12, 2022 22:28:38 GMT
Hi All- Got a question- In putting together the set for these, I've found that the 90c green is harder to find. I managed to figure out that may this one was the only pre-cancelled one of the series? Is that right?  |
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stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Nov 13, 2022 0:17:53 GMT
Yvert & Tellier shows no corresponding stamp against the 90 centimes green pre-oblitre. Searching several catalogues, listed only as pre-oblitere with no notes regarding the new value.
Perhaps someone can shed light on this. Printing was about 1 year after the 80 c pre-oblitre (and the 90 c is a darker green)
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Post by gstamps on Nov 13, 2022 8:55:06 GMT
90 c (green) only exists pre-cancelled.
I don't know why it appears in the album.
The stamps in this series (minus the 1.30 F stamp) are also pre-cancelled (in this series I think it is the place of the pre-cancelled 90c)
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stainlessb
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Post by stainlessb on Nov 13, 2022 14:50:05 GMT
It occurred to me late last night *why I do not really know), that there must have been as there was postal need/rate requiringe 90 centimes denomination and no combination of lower value Ceres pre-oblitres' to make this up, and (it may be) the postal system did not wish to cause whatever businesses to use non pre-oblits in order to not over pay for whatever they were mailing (and thus require more handling/processing on the part of the post office. This is completely hypothetical and may in fact have no resemblance to reality  |
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