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Saint Pierre & Miquelon Sc C1/SG 336 issued 1942. A self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France in the NW Atlantic Ocean. It is a vestige of the once-vast territory of New France.
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St. Pierre & Miquelon Sc B1/SG 107 issued 1915. The semi-postal benefited the Red Cross. Residents are French citizens; the collectivity elects its own deputy to the National Assembly and participates in senatorial and presidential elections.
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St. Vincent SG/Sc #1 issued May 8, 1861. West Indian St. Vincent’s first issue (8th May 1861) is the 1d; the ½d stamps in orange and green were issued in 1881 and 1884
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St. Vincent SG-O1 Sc-O1 issued 1982. The issue of stamps was largely a money-making enterprise rather than to fulfill a postal need. Worse still, many of the constituent islands also issued their own stamps in subsequent decades.
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St Vincent SG603 Sc569, first issue after independence in 1979. St. Vincent's first issue as a British colony was in May 1861. It became an associated state in 1969 and independent in 1979.
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St. Vincent Sc276 SG282, first issue after associate statehood in the British Commonwealth. St. Vincent was granted associate statehood status by Britain on 27 October 1969, giving it complete control over its internal affairs.
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St. Vincent Grenadines Sc/SG #1 issued 1973. Grenadines is a small group of islands including Bequia, Mustique, Mayreau, Canouan and Union Island. The issue of stamps was largely a money-making enterprise starting with a royal wedding.
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St. Vincent Grenadines-Bequia Sc #1 issued 1984. Bequia means "island of the clouds" in the ancient Arawak. The island of 5000 issued stamps with a focus on topicals - trains, cars, etc.
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El Salvador Sc/SG #1 issued 17th January 1867. El Salvador is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America and the only Central American country with no Caribbean coastline.
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El Salvador Sc C1/SG 771 issued 1929. The airmail issues were overprints on standard issues until a dedicated stamp was issued in 1930.
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El Salvador Sc O1/SG O170 issued 1896. The first official for El Salvador (per Scott) was an overprint on a postal issue from 1896. The image is of "Peace".
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Samoa Sc #1/SG #15 issued 1879. The first postal service, using the "EXPRESS" stamps, was organized by C.L. Griffiths, who had previously run the Fiji Times Express post, the main purpose being delivery of newspapers.
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Samoa - German Dependency Sc 51/SG G1 issued in 1900. In the 1890s, the US, GB and Germany all had a presence. The 3 powers encouraged rivalries within the local population, resulting in 2 civil wars, eventually resolved in the 1899 Tripartite Convention.
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Samoa - New Zealand Dependency Sc/SG 101 issued 1914. During WW1, New Zealand troops occupied German Samoa. NZ was given the mandate in 1920 by the League of Nations.
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Samoa - New Zealand Dependency Sc/SG 101 issued 1914. During WW1, New Zealand troops occupied German Samoa. NZ was given the mandate in 1920 by the League of Nations.
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Samoa Sc166 SG180 issued 1935. In 1935, stamps were rebranded ‘Western Samoa’. Independence from New Zealand was granted in 1962.
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Samoa Sc223 SG239 issued in 1962 to celebrate the granted independence.
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Samoa Sc C1/ SG 263 issued in 1965. Samoa was late to the game when it came to airmail issues.
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San Marino Sc/SG/Mi/Y&T #1 issued 1st August 1877. One case where all the major catalogs agree on the first issue. Designed and engraved by E. Repattito, Turin. It is the world’s smallest republic and remained neutral in both World Wars.
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San Marino SG164 Sc-C1 issued 1931. San Marino is an independent state in northeast Italy, described in Wikipedia as an ‘enclaved microstate’, its area is 24 square miles and the population around 33,000.
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San Marino Sc B1/ SG 55 issued 1917. A charity stamp issued to benefit Hospitals for Italian Soldiers. Charity stamps (Semi-Postal) are issued as a postal stamp with an added fee collected to support of charity or other cause.
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San Marino SG-D38 Sc-J1 issued 1897. San Marino and the Kingdom of Italy signed a Convention of Friendship in 1862. Giuseppe Garibaldi allowed San Marino to remain independent after the unification of Italy.
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Colombian States - Santander Sc/SG #1 issued 1884. Colombia became a federal state in 1863 composed of nine "sovereign states.” It comprised the present-day nations of Colombia and Panama and parts of northwestern Brazil.
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Sarawak Sc/SG #1 issued March 1, 1869. At the time of the first issue, Sarawak was ruled by Sir James Brooke, depicted on the first issue. He was the first member of the Brooke dynasty that ruled the state for more than a century from 1841.
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Sardinia Scott #1 issued January 1, 1851. The 1st issue was valid until September 30, 1853. Printed by Francesco Matraire of Turin.
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Scarpanto SG3K / Sc1 issued 1912. Karpathos (Scarpanto) is the mythological homeland of the Titan Iapetus, and the birthplace of Proteus.
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Schleswig-Holstein Sc 1 issued November 15, 1850. The first issue was valid until the end of August, 1851. Very few stamps were used, and most of the
cancels are smeared, almost obliterating the design.
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Malaya State - Selangor Y&T #1/ Sc #2 issued 1881. Scott states the authenticity of Sc1-2 is questioned. Gibbons describes them, states that their "status is unclear" and does not number them. Yvert & Tellier list only the red handstamp at #1.
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Malaya State - Selangor SG #1/ Sc #5/ Y&T #3 issued 1881. On the "SELANGOR" overprints, Gibbons distinguishes many more font variations than the other catalogues. Listing the group as SG 1-7 based on font.
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Malaysia - Selangor Sc121 SG136 issued 1965. Located on the west coast of the Malay peninsular, the first British Resident was appointed in 1874 and Selangor joined the Federated Malay States in 1896. Selangor became part of Malaysia in 1963.
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Senegal - Republic Sc195 SG228 issued 1960. In 1958 Senegal became a state within the French Community and in 1959 joined with French Sudan to form the Mali Federation. Senegal left the Federation in August 1960 to form the Republic of Senegal.
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Senegal SG178 Sc-C1 issued 1935. Senegal issued its first stamps as a French colony in 1887. The stamps of French West Africa were used from 1944 until 1959.
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Senegal SG89 Sc-B1 issued in 1915. A charity stamp issued to benefit the Red Cross.
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Serbia Sc 1/ SG N1 issued 1866. Serbia Sc1 - 3 (SG-N1 - N3) were only used as newspaper tax stamps, making Sc4 SG9 the first Serbian POSTAGE stamp.
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Serbia Sc J1/ SG D87 issued 1895. Prince Michael Obrenovich initiated modernization in Serbia, including the introduction of a postal system.
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Serbia Sc 1N1 issued 1916. Serbia was occupied by Austria during the First World War. Occupation issues were issued as overprints on Austrian stamps.
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Serbia Sc 2N1 issued 1941. Stamps of #yugoslavia overprinted by Germany for the occupation of Serbia during the Second World War.
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Serbia & Montenegro SC 180 issued 3rd April 2003. Serbia joined with other regions after WW1 and became Yugoslavia in 1929. Yugoslavia dissolved in 1992, leaving the entity of Serbia and Montenegro and in 2006.
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Serbia (2006 Republic) Sc 348 issued 30th June 2006. In 2006, Montenegro left the Serbia & Montenegro Federation. The first revived Serbia stamp depicted the Battle of Mishar, a painting by Paja Jovanovic.
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Sremsko Baranjska Oblast SG-K39 issued 1995. The most eastern section of ethnic Serbian Krajina remained independent from Croatia under the name of Sremsko-Baranjska Oblast until May 19, 1997. It later rejoined Croatia.
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Seychelles Sc 1a/SG 1 issued 5th April 1890. Printed by De La Rue, London. Seychelles was administered from nearby Mauritius from 1810 until 1903. Mauritian stamps were used from 1848 until 1890, identified by cancellation.
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Morocco Sherifian Post Sc-A1 SG1 issued 1912. Morocco ran a Sherifian (Imperial) post from 1892 using octagonal cachets and using stamps from 1912 until 1919.
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Sharjah and Dependences Sc/SG #1 issued 10th July 1963. The dependencies on the Gulf of Oman are Dhiba, Khor Fakkan, and Kalba. Printed by Harrison & Sons, London.
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Siberia Sc #1/SG #5 issued in 1919. Admiral Kolchak assumed power as the "Supreme Ruler " in Siberia in November 1918. After the capture of Omsk by the Bolshevists, he resigned in January 1920.
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Sierra Leone Sc 1a/SG 1 issued September 21, 1859. Sierra Leone had an internal postal service from 1852, but when stamps were introduced in 1859, they were only used for external mail. Printed by De La Rue, London
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Sierra Leone Sc C1/ SG 263 issued 1963. The first airmail stamp was an overprint to celebrate the 2nd year of independence.
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Sierra Leone First issue after independence SG223 Sc208 issued 1963. When Sierra Leone attained independence from the United Kingdom in 1961, the country transitioned to a Commonwealth realm and was designated the Dominion of Sierra Leone.
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Simi Sc 1/SG 3L issued in 1912. In 1912, the Dodecanese islands declared independence from the Ottomans to become the Federation of the Dodecanese Islands, though they were almost immediately occupied by Italy.
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Singapore Sc/SG #1 issued Sept 1, 1948. Singapore was part of Straits Settlements until that was dissolved in 1946. Singapore then became a Crown Colony until 1957.
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Slovakia Sc/SG #2 issued in 1939. During WW2 the puppet state of Slovakia was set up under German control. At the end of the war, it became part of Czechoslovakia again. Neither catalog lists a #1.
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Slovenia Italian Occupation SG #1 (Yugoslavia Sc-N1) issued in 1941. Germany annexed parts of Slovenia in 1941 and thereafter German stamps were used. Italy occupied the capital (Ljubljana) and beyond as the Province of Lubiana.
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German Occupation Yugoslavia Sc-N36/ Slovenia SG65 issued 1944. When Italy ended hostilities, Germany took over the province and renamed it Laibach. Germany overprinted Italian stamps denominated in Italian currency.
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Italian Offices in the Turkish Empire - Smyrna Sc1 SG151 issued February 1909. Several of the European powers maintained post offices in the Turkish Empire from the late 1800s until Treaty of Lausanne was signed in 1923.
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British Solomon Islands Sc/SG #1 issued February 14, 1907. Printed by W.E. Smith and Co. Sixty thousand were printed with just over 45,000 issued before being withdrawn on November 1, 1908.
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Somali Coast Sc34 SG121 issued 1902. France established the French Somali Coast Protectorate (including Obock) in 1888 and also set up the town of Djibouti as its capital. In 1902, stamps of Djibouti were replaced by those of the French Somali Coast.
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Regarding the French Somali Coast and first issues: Obock was a colony while Djibouti was a protectorate. The two entities were formally fused in 1896 as the French Somali Coast, but both Djibouti and Obock stamps continued to be valid. The Obock post office closed in 1899. The 1902 pictorials were the first stamps printed for the Somali Coast.
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Somalia (Benadir) Sc/SG #1 issued 12th October 1903. The previous name of what is now Somalia was Benadir which translates as "landing places'. Italian companies leased local ports and from 1898 the area was administered by the Benadir company.
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Italian Somaliland Sc/SG 8 issued 1905. Italy bought the sovereign rights to the Benadir ports in 1905 for £144,000 and later bought neighboring land from Ethiopia in 1908 for £120,000. SG regards Sc8 SG8 as the 1st issue for Italian Somaliland.
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Oltre Giuba Sc/SG #1 issued 1925. In 1924 Britain ceded a strip of land to Italy which became Italian Jubaland, or Oltre Giuba. It was incorporated into Italian Somaliland in June 1926.
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Somalia Italian Trust Territory Sc170 SG233 issued 1950. In November 1949, Somalia was placed under United Nations Trusteeship, with Italy as the trustee, on the understanding that it would become independent after ten years.
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Somalia Republic Sc242 SG353 issued 1960. In May 1960 the British Somaliland Protectorate joined with Italian Somalia and became an independent republic in July 1960.
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British Somaliland Sc/SG 1, 1st June 1903. Indian stamps were used at two post offices (identifiable by cancellation) from 1887 until 1903, when control was passed from India to the British Foreign Office and Indian overprints were introduced.
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Great Britain EAF Sc/SG #1 issued 1943. In Febrmalia and overprinted British stamps (E.A.F. = East African Forces) were used from 1942 until 1950.
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South Africa Sc/SG #1 issued November 4, 1910. The first issue is inscribed both in English and Africaans and this practice is extended to pairs of stamps, one in each language, in issues from 1926 to 1951.
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South Africa (Republic) Sc254 SG198 issued in 1962. South Africa became a republic in 1961 and subsequently some areas were given independence, but reincorporated into South Africa on 27 April 1994, after the first post-apartheid elections.
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South Australia Sc/SG #1 issued Monday, January 1, 1855. These stamps were printed in sheets of 240 stamps - 20 rows of 12 stamps. Printed by Perkins, Bacon & Co. in London, England.
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South China Sc-7L1 SG-CC201 issued in 1949. During the conflict between communist and nationalist forces, postal services were administered on a regional basis, although the regional stamps could be used throughout China.
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South Georgia Sc/SG 1-15 issued in 1963. South Georgia was one of the Falkland Island Dependencies. In 1963, three of the other dependencies became British Antarctic Territory and South Georgia then began its own issues.
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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Sc106 SG153 issued in 1986. In October 1986, South Georgia joined with the South Sandwich Isles and became independent of the Falklands. Both Scott and Gibbons continue numbering from South Georgia.
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South Kasai Sc #1 issued 1961. Part of the Belgian Congo which gained independence in mid 1960 – becoming the Congo Democratic Republic. The South Kasai decided to break away. South Kasai became part of the Republic of Congo in October 1962.
There was a recent article somewhere that explained all the Congos.
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South Korea Sc 1/SG 1 issued November 18, 1884. The first stamp was issued in November 1884 and in the December there was an attempted revolt during which the Post Office at Seoul was burned down. Stamps were not used again until 1895.
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Japanese offices in Korea Sc1 SG1 issued in 1900. Japanese Post Offices were opened from 1876 using Japanese stamps but currency fluctuations required the stamps to be overprinted in 1900.
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South Korea - US military gov Sc55 SG69 - US troops landed in Korea in September 1945 and set up a military gov of Korea south of the 38th Parallel. The stamps of Japan were used until June 1946 when overprints were issued.
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Republic of Korea Sc80 SG95 issued 1948. Gibbons has sections of US military govt. (starting with Sc55 SG69) and the Republic of #Korea from 1948 (starting with SG106), but Scott starts the Republic earlier with Sc80, SG95.
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North Korean Occupation SG 1 issued 1950. North Korean forces invaded South Korea in June 1950 but were driven out in July by UN forces. Three South Korean stamps were issued in the occupied area, overprinted "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
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North Korean Occupation SG 1 issued 1950. North Korean forces invaded South Korea in June 1950 but were driven out in July by UN forces. Three South Korean stamps were issued in the occupied area, overprinted "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
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North Korea - Russian Occupation Sc1 SG-N1 issued 1946. Russia declared war on Japan in August 1945 and invaded northern #Korea, occupying territory north of the 38th Parallel. A provisional govt. was set up in February 1946.
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Korean People's Democratic Republic Sc14 SG-N16 issued 1948. The People's Democratic Republic was declared in September 1948 and Russian troops left by the end of the year.
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11:00:48am
I don't remember anyone doing early Ireland, so here's my first page. My album, Vol. #1 of the Scott's International World Album, only shows a few of these. It took a while but eventually I completed the "smaller overprints". I'm still missing 12 / 15 of the overprinted GB seahorse overprints since they are more expensive and harder to find. I'm about 99% sure this page is OK! Several of these came from SoR since someone a year or so offered a whole book of them. Thanks whoever you are!!
I noticed the one at the bottom in danger of being damaged and fixed it!
Edit: Does anyone know what the postmark on #51 is referring to?
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South Moluccas SG 1 issued 1950. The South Moluccas resisted inclusion in unitary Indonesia and in April 1950 declared independence. Indonesia gradually recaptured the territory. Scott does not list the issues.
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Falkland Islands - South Orkneys Sc 4L1/SG C1 issued 1944. Overprints of Falkland Islands stamps were issued for use in South Orkneys in 1944. In 1946, these were replaced by a single dedicated issue inscribed Falkland Island Dependencies.
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South Russia-Don Cossack Republic Sc #6 issued October, 1918. Rostov issues. Surcharge on Russian stamps of 1909 -17. Printed by Pryazovskii Krai, a newspaper in Rostov-on-Don.
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South Russia-Crimean Regional Government Sc #51 issued November, 1918. General Sulkevich issue. Surcharged 35 KOP on Russian contemporary Russian 1 kopeck imperforates (various printings).
(from First Issues Collector's Club, http://www.firstissues.org/index.php)
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South Russia-Donetz issued March 1919. Listed in Scott under Ukraine 49-50, but SG lists as Government of General Denikin, SG36-7. Issued for the Donetz coal mining region following withdraw of German troops.
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Falkland Islands-South Shetlands Sc 5L1/ SG D1 issued 1944. In March 1962 South Shetland, South Orkneys and Graham Land became British Antarctic Territory.
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FIRST ISSUE of the Day: South Vietnam,
Independent State within French Union Sc27 SG-S1 issue 1955. The French were defeated in 1954, and the country officially divided at the 17th parallel into North Vietnam and South Vietnam until elections to be held in 1956 for a unified government.
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National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Sc1 SG-NLF1. The first issue is a set of 3 stamps issued on October 5, 1963. The 3 stamps differ only by being printed in 3 languages: English (Sc#1), French (Sc#2) and Spanish (Sc#3).
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FIRST ISSUE of the Day: North Vietnam General Issues Sc6 SG-NA14. The French were defeated in 1954, and the country divided at the 17th parallel into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
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North Vietnam Central Annam Sc1 SG-NA5 issued in 1950. The French territories of Cochin China, Tonkin and Annam combined to form Vietnam in 1949. The Communist Viet Minh forces were already fighting against the French at that time.
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FIRST ISSUE of the Day: Vietnam Socialist Republic Sc830 SG99 issued in 1975. Following the Vietnam War, South Vietnam was incorporated into North Vietnam and became the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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Southwest Africa Sc/SG #1 issued 1923. The territory was handed from Germany to GB after the war and incorporated into #SouthAfrica . It continued to issue its own stamps until 1990, starting with overprints alternately in Afrikaans and English.
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Southern Nigeria Sc/SG #1 issued in 1901. On 1st January 1900 the territory administered by the Niger Company was split to form the protectorate of Northern Nigeria and the Colony and protectorate of Southern Nigeria.
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Southern Rhodesia Sc/SG 1 issued April 1, 1924. This area was under the British South Africa Co. until 1924, became Southern Rhodesia until 1954 when it joined Rhodesia and Nyasaland until that broke up in 1963, and it became just Rhodesia.
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FIRST ISSUE of the Day: Spain Sc/SG #1 issued January 1, 1850. On October 24, 1849, a royal decree ordered the creation of adhesive postage stamps. Only two months later the first set of five stamps was ready and in use. Printed by Fabrica Nacional del Sello.
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Spain Sc O1/SG O46 issued 1854. The first official stamp (government use) would have been an 1840 Penny Black variant with V and R in the top corners, but this was never issued. First place therefore goes to Spain for an 1854 issue.
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Spain SG353 Sc-C1 issued 1920. The first #airmail stamp was an overprint on a definitive issue.
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World's First War Tax Stamp -- Spain SG-W217 Sc-MR1 issued in 1874.
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Spain Sc B1/ SG 294 issued in 1926. Spain's first semi-postal (charity stamp) benefited the Red Cross.
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Spanish Offices in Morocco Sc/SG #1 issued in 1903. Both Scott and Gibbons begin Spanish Offices in 1903 with overprints of Spanish stamps and continue with sequential numbering for Spanish Morocco in 1914.
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Spanish Offices in Tangier Sc L1 /SG27 issued in 1929. Scott begins in 1929 with this stamp, SG in 1921 and lists three sets of overprints first. The French and Spanish Offices in Tangier were amalgamated after Spain occupied the area in 1940.
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Spanish Morocco -Tetuan Sc1 SG15 1908. Scott has a separate section at the end of Spanish Morocco for the Tetuan handstamps. Gibbons includes them in the listing of Spanish Offices in Morocco.
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Spanish Andorra Sc/SG #1-12 issued 28th March 1928. Andorra is a parliamentary co-principality with the President of France and the Bishop of Urgell (Catalonia, Spain) as co-princes. Both French and Spanish stamps are used.
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Spanish Guinea Sc/SG 1-8 issued in 1902. From 1902 to 1909 the stamps of Spanish Guinea were used only in the continental area later called Rio Muni. From 1909 to 1960, Spanish Guinea also included Fernando Po, Elobey, Annobon and Corisco.
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Spanish Sahara Sc/SG #1 issued in 1925. La Agüera was occupied by Spanish troops with the intention of establishing a military air base. It was incorporated into Rio de Oro in 1924 and the name changed to Spanish Sahara.
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Spanish West Africa Sc/SG#1 issued 9th October 1949. Spanish West Africa was administered from Ifni's capital, Sidl Ifni. The stamps inscribed Spanish West Africa were used Ifni and in Spanish Sahara.
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Sri Lanka Sc470 SG591 issued 1972. Ceylon became a republic within the British Commonwealth in May 1972 and changed its name to Sri Lanka "Resplendent Island".
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Stampalia Sc1 SG3M issued 1912. Aegean Islands in the Scott catalogues, Dodecanese Islands in Gibbons. These are 12 (hence dodeca-) small islands (plus the capital, the larger island of Rhodes) in the south-east Aegean Sea (hence Aegean).
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10:49:18am
These are two pages that I will probably never be able to finish but since both contain #1 stamps they fit here. The only way I will be able to add to these pages is if my local long time dealer were to ever locate any of the missing stamps and sell them to me using payments. Otherwise a bit too pricey, especially since fakes also exist! I'd really have to have trust in the seller!! With NB #5 I did at one point bid on a proof or specimen which is quite a bit cheaper. It went for too much so I never did get it. I don't usually have any interest in that type of stamp, I consider them to be more like an album filler than the real thing - no offence to those of you who collect proofs or specimens. We all collect in different ways.
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Harvey, WOW...
Those are very nice. Love those Canadian Classics!
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Thanks Ernie! I would love to find a couple more of them while I still am around to do so. The five stamps left to get have a CV of at least $24 500!! I'm afraid, unless I get very very lucky, the most I'll ever get is maybe one or two!! They are great looking stamps and I look at those pages on a regular basis!
Question: My NB #2 has a very rare numbered postmark, either 2 or 20. This just "fell into my lap", I had no idea I even had it until a couple years ago. Does anyone of you collectors keep track of that sort of thing? I also keep my eyes open for numbered BC postmarks. They mostly seem to be #35 for Victoria but every once in a while another number shows up on a stamp I can afford, usually BC #2 which isn't usually too expensive.
Edit: The difference between NS #'s 6 and 7 and NB #'s 3 and 4 comes down to differences in shades of purple. That's a rabbit hole that might not be much fun to navigate! It's sort of like the difference between NS #2, 2i and 3 - very difficult to get right. I picked up a copy of 2i from a seller here, thankfully it came with a certificate because 2i is very similar to 3!
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Straits Settlements Japanese Occupation Sc N1/ SG Malaya J92 issued 1942.
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Re: Harvey's New Brunswick #2 with a #2 on the cancel: according to Unitrade this makes it an 1850s Andover cancel, with rarity factor of 9 (out of 10). You acquired a better item than you anticipated--congratulations!
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09:08:41pm
Thanks Tom!! I'm very pleased with that stamp and look at it regularly!
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Straits Settlements Sc/SG #1 issued 1st September 1867. The Straits Settlements (Singapore, Malacca and Penang) had formed part of the Indian postal administration until September 1867 and accordingly used Indian stamps prior to the overprints.
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10:28:12am
I don't remember anyone posting early Ecuador so here's page one with a few really nice items! The stamp at upper right is one of the early items where a GB stamp has been postmarked C41 to denote it's use in Ecuador. A few countries did this sort of thing and they are a bit difficult to find. There are, I think, 39 for Ecuador ( In Scott's A1 - A39 or you can search Guayaquil ) and so far I have only come up with one and my A13 is one of the cheaper ones! Occasionally I search the early used GB stamps hoping to run into one but so far I've only found this one!
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I started this collection a year or so ago. Most of the classic stuff was picked up from my local dealer for very fair prices since I don't think he has very many buyers who are interested in Ecuador. I picked up much of the more common material from sellers on SoR. The hardest stuff to find is the huge amount of overprinted material, especially the officials. I started collecting Ecuador (the hardest part is spelling the name with a "c" instead of a "q"!!) so I could have another country to collect cheaper material for. I don't buy much of this country on E-Bay, I prefer my dealer and SoR. I just wish more sellers here would get into selling Ecuador, it doesn't show up very often.
My cutoff is 1940 and I think I got the pages from someone here. I think the Liberty (regular) series and the eagle and US flag (airmail) series from 1938 are two of the most attractive series around from any country! IMHO!
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Straits Settlements British Military Administration Sc 256/SG 1 issued 1945. Following the Japanese Occupation during WW2, British Military Administration (BMA) stamps were used.
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Turkey Sc/SG #1 issued January 13, 1863. Printed in the Sate Printing Works, Constantinople. Turkey offers a satisfyingly complex entry as there are Sultanate, revolutionary and Republic issues, together with occupations and Office Abroad stamps.
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Malaya - Malacca Sc/SG #1 issued 1948. Separate issues for former Straits Settlement area of Malacca. Malacca joined the Malayan Federation on February 1, 1948.
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Malaya - Penang Sc/SG #1 issued in 1948. In 1946 Singapore and Labuan left the Straites Settlement. Malacca and Penang became part of the Malayan Federation on February 1, 1948 issuing stamps.
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angore, thank you for posting these.. Although, I don't collect worldwide per se, I love seeing this every day and getting a walk through on the wide world of philately. Thanks again and have a great week.
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angore, thank you for posting these.. Although, I don't collect worldwide per se, I love seeing this every day and getting a walk through on the wide world of philately. Thanks again and have a great week.
As posted earlier, these are the creation of Kurt Streepy of the First Issues Collectors Club and posted on various social media sites daily, I post here and on Facebook. I am the vice president (means I do little!) of the club.
Club link for more detailed information: http://firstissues.org/
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Sudan Independence Sc 118/ SG 143 issue of 1956. On 1 January 1956, Sudan was duly declared an independent state from prior rule by Egypt and the British.
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Suez Canal Co. SG 1-4 issued 1868. The French company that built the Suez Canal transported mail between Port Said and Suez free of charge from 1859 until 1867, but then introduced a charge.
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Sungei Ujong Sc #2/SG #1 issued 1st January 1878. Sungei Ujong came under British protection in 1874. Gibbons lists it under Negri Sembilan, of which it became part in August 1895. Printed by De La Rue, London.
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Surinam Sc #1/SG #25 issued 1st October 1873. Britain first settled the area in 1651 and in 1667 swapped it with the Dutch for New York. It changed hands between Britain, Holland and France until the Dutch gained control in 1816 under the Treaty of Paris.
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Suriname (Independance) Sc424 SG802 issued in 1975. Suriname was granted independence from the Netherlands November 25, 1975.
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After 45 years of collecting stamps, I finally purchased a U.S. #1(and a #2) at Chicagopex.
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Great looking stamp and very hard to get - congratulations!!! It took me a very long time to get those two stamps at an almost reasonable price, again congrats!! The blue cancel adds about $40 to the value. I was incredibly lucky with my #1, it had a rare red cancel.
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Suriname (Autonomous State) Sc 264/ SG 427 issued in 1954. Suriname became an autonomous state within the kingdom of the Netherlands in 1954.
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Swaziland Sc #1/SG #4 issued Friday, October 18, 1889. Stamps of Transvaal 1885 - 93 overprinted in black. Dates quoted were those on which the overprinting took place in Pretoria. The stamps may have been issued later in Swaziland itself.
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FIRST ISSUE of the Day: Swaziland (Independance) Sc138 SG137 issued 1968. Swaziland was independent in C19th, administered by Transvaal from 1894 to 1906, and then South Africa until 1934. It became self-governing in 1967 and independent again in September 1968.
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Sweden Sc/SG #1 issued July 1, 1855. Perforated 14, no watermark, typography. 40,000 issued.
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Saint Pierre & Miquelon Sc 1-3 5th January 1885. Sc #1-3, known as the gothic surcharges (Y&T #5-7, SG5-7) were issued later in 1885 when new 5c. were needed along with 10c. and 15c. denominations for mail between islands.
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Saint Pierre & Miquelon Sc C1/SG 336 issued 1942. A self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France in the NW Atlantic Ocean. It is a vestige of the once-vast territory of New France.
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St. Pierre & Miquelon Sc B1/SG 107 issued 1915. The semi-postal benefited the Red Cross. Residents are French citizens; the collectivity elects its own deputy to the National Assembly and participates in senatorial and presidential elections.
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St. Vincent SG/Sc #1 issued May 8, 1861. West Indian St. Vincent’s first issue (8th May 1861) is the 1d; the ½d stamps in orange and green were issued in 1881 and 1884
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St. Vincent SG-O1 Sc-O1 issued 1982. The issue of stamps was largely a money-making enterprise rather than to fulfill a postal need. Worse still, many of the constituent islands also issued their own stamps in subsequent decades.
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St Vincent SG603 Sc569, first issue after independence in 1979. St. Vincent's first issue as a British colony was in May 1861. It became an associated state in 1969 and independent in 1979.
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St. Vincent Sc276 SG282, first issue after associate statehood in the British Commonwealth. St. Vincent was granted associate statehood status by Britain on 27 October 1969, giving it complete control over its internal affairs.
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St. Vincent Grenadines Sc/SG #1 issued 1973. Grenadines is a small group of islands including Bequia, Mustique, Mayreau, Canouan and Union Island. The issue of stamps was largely a money-making enterprise starting with a royal wedding.
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St. Vincent Grenadines-Bequia Sc #1 issued 1984. Bequia means "island of the clouds" in the ancient Arawak. The island of 5000 issued stamps with a focus on topicals - trains, cars, etc.
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El Salvador Sc/SG #1 issued 17th January 1867. El Salvador is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America and the only Central American country with no Caribbean coastline.
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El Salvador Sc C1/SG 771 issued 1929. The airmail issues were overprints on standard issues until a dedicated stamp was issued in 1930.
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El Salvador Sc O1/SG O170 issued 1896. The first official for El Salvador (per Scott) was an overprint on a postal issue from 1896. The image is of "Peace".
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Samoa Sc #1/SG #15 issued 1879. The first postal service, using the "EXPRESS" stamps, was organized by C.L. Griffiths, who had previously run the Fiji Times Express post, the main purpose being delivery of newspapers.
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Samoa - German Dependency Sc 51/SG G1 issued in 1900. In the 1890s, the US, GB and Germany all had a presence. The 3 powers encouraged rivalries within the local population, resulting in 2 civil wars, eventually resolved in the 1899 Tripartite Convention.
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Samoa - New Zealand Dependency Sc/SG 101 issued 1914. During WW1, New Zealand troops occupied German Samoa. NZ was given the mandate in 1920 by the League of Nations.
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Samoa - New Zealand Dependency Sc/SG 101 issued 1914. During WW1, New Zealand troops occupied German Samoa. NZ was given the mandate in 1920 by the League of Nations.
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Samoa Sc166 SG180 issued 1935. In 1935, stamps were rebranded ‘Western Samoa’. Independence from New Zealand was granted in 1962.
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Samoa Sc223 SG239 issued in 1962 to celebrate the granted independence.
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Samoa Sc C1/ SG 263 issued in 1965. Samoa was late to the game when it came to airmail issues.
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San Marino Sc/SG/Mi/Y&T #1 issued 1st August 1877. One case where all the major catalogs agree on the first issue. Designed and engraved by E. Repattito, Turin. It is the world’s smallest republic and remained neutral in both World Wars.
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San Marino SG164 Sc-C1 issued 1931. San Marino is an independent state in northeast Italy, described in Wikipedia as an ‘enclaved microstate’, its area is 24 square miles and the population around 33,000.
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San Marino Sc B1/ SG 55 issued 1917. A charity stamp issued to benefit Hospitals for Italian Soldiers. Charity stamps (Semi-Postal) are issued as a postal stamp with an added fee collected to support of charity or other cause.
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San Marino SG-D38 Sc-J1 issued 1897. San Marino and the Kingdom of Italy signed a Convention of Friendship in 1862. Giuseppe Garibaldi allowed San Marino to remain independent after the unification of Italy.
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Colombian States - Santander Sc/SG #1 issued 1884. Colombia became a federal state in 1863 composed of nine "sovereign states.” It comprised the present-day nations of Colombia and Panama and parts of northwestern Brazil.
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Sarawak Sc/SG #1 issued March 1, 1869. At the time of the first issue, Sarawak was ruled by Sir James Brooke, depicted on the first issue. He was the first member of the Brooke dynasty that ruled the state for more than a century from 1841.
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Sardinia Scott #1 issued January 1, 1851. The 1st issue was valid until September 30, 1853. Printed by Francesco Matraire of Turin.
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Scarpanto SG3K / Sc1 issued 1912. Karpathos (Scarpanto) is the mythological homeland of the Titan Iapetus, and the birthplace of Proteus.
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Schleswig-Holstein Sc 1 issued November 15, 1850. The first issue was valid until the end of August, 1851. Very few stamps were used, and most of the
cancels are smeared, almost obliterating the design.
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Malaya State - Selangor Y&T #1/ Sc #2 issued 1881. Scott states the authenticity of Sc1-2 is questioned. Gibbons describes them, states that their "status is unclear" and does not number them. Yvert & Tellier list only the red handstamp at #1.
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Malaya State - Selangor SG #1/ Sc #5/ Y&T #3 issued 1881. On the "SELANGOR" overprints, Gibbons distinguishes many more font variations than the other catalogues. Listing the group as SG 1-7 based on font.
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Malaysia - Selangor Sc121 SG136 issued 1965. Located on the west coast of the Malay peninsular, the first British Resident was appointed in 1874 and Selangor joined the Federated Malay States in 1896. Selangor became part of Malaysia in 1963.
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Senegal - Republic Sc195 SG228 issued 1960. In 1958 Senegal became a state within the French Community and in 1959 joined with French Sudan to form the Mali Federation. Senegal left the Federation in August 1960 to form the Republic of Senegal.
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Senegal SG178 Sc-C1 issued 1935. Senegal issued its first stamps as a French colony in 1887. The stamps of French West Africa were used from 1944 until 1959.
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Senegal SG89 Sc-B1 issued in 1915. A charity stamp issued to benefit the Red Cross.
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Serbia Sc 1/ SG N1 issued 1866. Serbia Sc1 - 3 (SG-N1 - N3) were only used as newspaper tax stamps, making Sc4 SG9 the first Serbian POSTAGE stamp.
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Serbia Sc J1/ SG D87 issued 1895. Prince Michael Obrenovich initiated modernization in Serbia, including the introduction of a postal system.
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Serbia Sc 1N1 issued 1916. Serbia was occupied by Austria during the First World War. Occupation issues were issued as overprints on Austrian stamps.
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Serbia Sc 2N1 issued 1941. Stamps of #yugoslavia overprinted by Germany for the occupation of Serbia during the Second World War.
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Serbia & Montenegro SC 180 issued 3rd April 2003. Serbia joined with other regions after WW1 and became Yugoslavia in 1929. Yugoslavia dissolved in 1992, leaving the entity of Serbia and Montenegro and in 2006.
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Serbia (2006 Republic) Sc 348 issued 30th June 2006. In 2006, Montenegro left the Serbia & Montenegro Federation. The first revived Serbia stamp depicted the Battle of Mishar, a painting by Paja Jovanovic.
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Sremsko Baranjska Oblast SG-K39 issued 1995. The most eastern section of ethnic Serbian Krajina remained independent from Croatia under the name of Sremsko-Baranjska Oblast until May 19, 1997. It later rejoined Croatia.
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Seychelles Sc 1a/SG 1 issued 5th April 1890. Printed by De La Rue, London. Seychelles was administered from nearby Mauritius from 1810 until 1903. Mauritian stamps were used from 1848 until 1890, identified by cancellation.
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Morocco Sherifian Post Sc-A1 SG1 issued 1912. Morocco ran a Sherifian (Imperial) post from 1892 using octagonal cachets and using stamps from 1912 until 1919.
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Sharjah and Dependences Sc/SG #1 issued 10th July 1963. The dependencies on the Gulf of Oman are Dhiba, Khor Fakkan, and Kalba. Printed by Harrison & Sons, London.
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Siberia Sc #1/SG #5 issued in 1919. Admiral Kolchak assumed power as the "Supreme Ruler " in Siberia in November 1918. After the capture of Omsk by the Bolshevists, he resigned in January 1920.
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Sierra Leone Sc 1a/SG 1 issued September 21, 1859. Sierra Leone had an internal postal service from 1852, but when stamps were introduced in 1859, they were only used for external mail. Printed by De La Rue, London
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Sierra Leone Sc C1/ SG 263 issued 1963. The first airmail stamp was an overprint to celebrate the 2nd year of independence.
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Sierra Leone First issue after independence SG223 Sc208 issued 1963. When Sierra Leone attained independence from the United Kingdom in 1961, the country transitioned to a Commonwealth realm and was designated the Dominion of Sierra Leone.
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Simi Sc 1/SG 3L issued in 1912. In 1912, the Dodecanese islands declared independence from the Ottomans to become the Federation of the Dodecanese Islands, though they were almost immediately occupied by Italy.
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Singapore Sc/SG #1 issued Sept 1, 1948. Singapore was part of Straits Settlements until that was dissolved in 1946. Singapore then became a Crown Colony until 1957.
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Slovakia Sc/SG #2 issued in 1939. During WW2 the puppet state of Slovakia was set up under German control. At the end of the war, it became part of Czechoslovakia again. Neither catalog lists a #1.
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Slovenia Italian Occupation SG #1 (Yugoslavia Sc-N1) issued in 1941. Germany annexed parts of Slovenia in 1941 and thereafter German stamps were used. Italy occupied the capital (Ljubljana) and beyond as the Province of Lubiana.
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German Occupation Yugoslavia Sc-N36/ Slovenia SG65 issued 1944. When Italy ended hostilities, Germany took over the province and renamed it Laibach. Germany overprinted Italian stamps denominated in Italian currency.
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Italian Offices in the Turkish Empire - Smyrna Sc1 SG151 issued February 1909. Several of the European powers maintained post offices in the Turkish Empire from the late 1800s until Treaty of Lausanne was signed in 1923.
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British Solomon Islands Sc/SG #1 issued February 14, 1907. Printed by W.E. Smith and Co. Sixty thousand were printed with just over 45,000 issued before being withdrawn on November 1, 1908.
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Somali Coast Sc34 SG121 issued 1902. France established the French Somali Coast Protectorate (including Obock) in 1888 and also set up the town of Djibouti as its capital. In 1902, stamps of Djibouti were replaced by those of the French Somali Coast.
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Regarding the French Somali Coast and first issues: Obock was a colony while Djibouti was a protectorate. The two entities were formally fused in 1896 as the French Somali Coast, but both Djibouti and Obock stamps continued to be valid. The Obock post office closed in 1899. The 1902 pictorials were the first stamps printed for the Somali Coast.
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Somalia (Benadir) Sc/SG #1 issued 12th October 1903. The previous name of what is now Somalia was Benadir which translates as "landing places'. Italian companies leased local ports and from 1898 the area was administered by the Benadir company.
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Italian Somaliland Sc/SG 8 issued 1905. Italy bought the sovereign rights to the Benadir ports in 1905 for £144,000 and later bought neighboring land from Ethiopia in 1908 for £120,000. SG regards Sc8 SG8 as the 1st issue for Italian Somaliland.
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Oltre Giuba Sc/SG #1 issued 1925. In 1924 Britain ceded a strip of land to Italy which became Italian Jubaland, or Oltre Giuba. It was incorporated into Italian Somaliland in June 1926.
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Somalia Italian Trust Territory Sc170 SG233 issued 1950. In November 1949, Somalia was placed under United Nations Trusteeship, with Italy as the trustee, on the understanding that it would become independent after ten years.
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Somalia Republic Sc242 SG353 issued 1960. In May 1960 the British Somaliland Protectorate joined with Italian Somalia and became an independent republic in July 1960.
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British Somaliland Sc/SG 1, 1st June 1903. Indian stamps were used at two post offices (identifiable by cancellation) from 1887 until 1903, when control was passed from India to the British Foreign Office and Indian overprints were introduced.
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Great Britain EAF Sc/SG #1 issued 1943. In Febrmalia and overprinted British stamps (E.A.F. = East African Forces) were used from 1942 until 1950.
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South Africa Sc/SG #1 issued November 4, 1910. The first issue is inscribed both in English and Africaans and this practice is extended to pairs of stamps, one in each language, in issues from 1926 to 1951.
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South Africa (Republic) Sc254 SG198 issued in 1962. South Africa became a republic in 1961 and subsequently some areas were given independence, but reincorporated into South Africa on 27 April 1994, after the first post-apartheid elections.
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South Australia Sc/SG #1 issued Monday, January 1, 1855. These stamps were printed in sheets of 240 stamps - 20 rows of 12 stamps. Printed by Perkins, Bacon & Co. in London, England.
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South China Sc-7L1 SG-CC201 issued in 1949. During the conflict between communist and nationalist forces, postal services were administered on a regional basis, although the regional stamps could be used throughout China.
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South Georgia Sc/SG 1-15 issued in 1963. South Georgia was one of the Falkland Island Dependencies. In 1963, three of the other dependencies became British Antarctic Territory and South Georgia then began its own issues.
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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Sc106 SG153 issued in 1986. In October 1986, South Georgia joined with the South Sandwich Isles and became independent of the Falklands. Both Scott and Gibbons continue numbering from South Georgia.
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South Kasai Sc #1 issued 1961. Part of the Belgian Congo which gained independence in mid 1960 – becoming the Congo Democratic Republic. The South Kasai decided to break away. South Kasai became part of the Republic of Congo in October 1962.
There was a recent article somewhere that explained all the Congos.
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South Korea Sc 1/SG 1 issued November 18, 1884. The first stamp was issued in November 1884 and in the December there was an attempted revolt during which the Post Office at Seoul was burned down. Stamps were not used again until 1895.
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Japanese offices in Korea Sc1 SG1 issued in 1900. Japanese Post Offices were opened from 1876 using Japanese stamps but currency fluctuations required the stamps to be overprinted in 1900.
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South Korea - US military gov Sc55 SG69 - US troops landed in Korea in September 1945 and set up a military gov of Korea south of the 38th Parallel. The stamps of Japan were used until June 1946 when overprints were issued.
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Republic of Korea Sc80 SG95 issued 1948. Gibbons has sections of US military govt. (starting with Sc55 SG69) and the Republic of #Korea from 1948 (starting with SG106), but Scott starts the Republic earlier with Sc80, SG95.
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North Korean Occupation SG 1 issued 1950. North Korean forces invaded South Korea in June 1950 but were driven out in July by UN forces. Three South Korean stamps were issued in the occupied area, overprinted "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
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North Korean Occupation SG 1 issued 1950. North Korean forces invaded South Korea in June 1950 but were driven out in July by UN forces. Three South Korean stamps were issued in the occupied area, overprinted "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
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North Korea - Russian Occupation Sc1 SG-N1 issued 1946. Russia declared war on Japan in August 1945 and invaded northern #Korea, occupying territory north of the 38th Parallel. A provisional govt. was set up in February 1946.
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Korean People's Democratic Republic Sc14 SG-N16 issued 1948. The People's Democratic Republic was declared in September 1948 and Russian troops left by the end of the year.
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I don't remember anyone doing early Ireland, so here's my first page. My album, Vol. #1 of the Scott's International World Album, only shows a few of these. It took a while but eventually I completed the "smaller overprints". I'm still missing 12 / 15 of the overprinted GB seahorse overprints since they are more expensive and harder to find. I'm about 99% sure this page is OK! Several of these came from SoR since someone a year or so offered a whole book of them. Thanks whoever you are!!
I noticed the one at the bottom in danger of being damaged and fixed it!
Edit: Does anyone know what the postmark on #51 is referring to?
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South Moluccas SG 1 issued 1950. The South Moluccas resisted inclusion in unitary Indonesia and in April 1950 declared independence. Indonesia gradually recaptured the territory. Scott does not list the issues.
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Falkland Islands - South Orkneys Sc 4L1/SG C1 issued 1944. Overprints of Falkland Islands stamps were issued for use in South Orkneys in 1944. In 1946, these were replaced by a single dedicated issue inscribed Falkland Island Dependencies.
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South Russia-Don Cossack Republic Sc #6 issued October, 1918. Rostov issues. Surcharge on Russian stamps of 1909 -17. Printed by Pryazovskii Krai, a newspaper in Rostov-on-Don.
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South Russia-Crimean Regional Government Sc #51 issued November, 1918. General Sulkevich issue. Surcharged 35 KOP on Russian contemporary Russian 1 kopeck imperforates (various printings).
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South Russia-Donetz issued March 1919. Listed in Scott under Ukraine 49-50, but SG lists as Government of General Denikin, SG36-7. Issued for the Donetz coal mining region following withdraw of German troops.
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Falkland Islands-South Shetlands Sc 5L1/ SG D1 issued 1944. In March 1962 South Shetland, South Orkneys and Graham Land became British Antarctic Territory.
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FIRST ISSUE of the Day: South Vietnam,
Independent State within French Union Sc27 SG-S1 issue 1955. The French were defeated in 1954, and the country officially divided at the 17th parallel into North Vietnam and South Vietnam until elections to be held in 1956 for a unified government.
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National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Sc1 SG-NLF1. The first issue is a set of 3 stamps issued on October 5, 1963. The 3 stamps differ only by being printed in 3 languages: English (Sc#1), French (Sc#2) and Spanish (Sc#3).
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FIRST ISSUE of the Day: North Vietnam General Issues Sc6 SG-NA14. The French were defeated in 1954, and the country divided at the 17th parallel into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
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North Vietnam Central Annam Sc1 SG-NA5 issued in 1950. The French territories of Cochin China, Tonkin and Annam combined to form Vietnam in 1949. The Communist Viet Minh forces were already fighting against the French at that time.
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FIRST ISSUE of the Day: Vietnam Socialist Republic Sc830 SG99 issued in 1975. Following the Vietnam War, South Vietnam was incorporated into North Vietnam and became the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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Southwest Africa Sc/SG #1 issued 1923. The territory was handed from Germany to GB after the war and incorporated into #SouthAfrica . It continued to issue its own stamps until 1990, starting with overprints alternately in Afrikaans and English.
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Southern Nigeria Sc/SG #1 issued in 1901. On 1st January 1900 the territory administered by the Niger Company was split to form the protectorate of Northern Nigeria and the Colony and protectorate of Southern Nigeria.
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Southern Rhodesia Sc/SG 1 issued April 1, 1924. This area was under the British South Africa Co. until 1924, became Southern Rhodesia until 1954 when it joined Rhodesia and Nyasaland until that broke up in 1963, and it became just Rhodesia.
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FIRST ISSUE of the Day: Spain Sc/SG #1 issued January 1, 1850. On October 24, 1849, a royal decree ordered the creation of adhesive postage stamps. Only two months later the first set of five stamps was ready and in use. Printed by Fabrica Nacional del Sello.
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Spain Sc O1/SG O46 issued 1854. The first official stamp (government use) would have been an 1840 Penny Black variant with V and R in the top corners, but this was never issued. First place therefore goes to Spain for an 1854 issue.
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Spain SG353 Sc-C1 issued 1920. The first #airmail stamp was an overprint on a definitive issue.
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World's First War Tax Stamp -- Spain SG-W217 Sc-MR1 issued in 1874.
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Spain Sc B1/ SG 294 issued in 1926. Spain's first semi-postal (charity stamp) benefited the Red Cross.
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Spanish Offices in Morocco Sc/SG #1 issued in 1903. Both Scott and Gibbons begin Spanish Offices in 1903 with overprints of Spanish stamps and continue with sequential numbering for Spanish Morocco in 1914.
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Spanish Offices in Tangier Sc L1 /SG27 issued in 1929. Scott begins in 1929 with this stamp, SG in 1921 and lists three sets of overprints first. The French and Spanish Offices in Tangier were amalgamated after Spain occupied the area in 1940.
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Spanish Morocco -Tetuan Sc1 SG15 1908. Scott has a separate section at the end of Spanish Morocco for the Tetuan handstamps. Gibbons includes them in the listing of Spanish Offices in Morocco.
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Spanish Andorra Sc/SG #1-12 issued 28th March 1928. Andorra is a parliamentary co-principality with the President of France and the Bishop of Urgell (Catalonia, Spain) as co-princes. Both French and Spanish stamps are used.
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Spanish Guinea Sc/SG 1-8 issued in 1902. From 1902 to 1909 the stamps of Spanish Guinea were used only in the continental area later called Rio Muni. From 1909 to 1960, Spanish Guinea also included Fernando Po, Elobey, Annobon and Corisco.
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Spanish Sahara Sc/SG #1 issued in 1925. La Agüera was occupied by Spanish troops with the intention of establishing a military air base. It was incorporated into Rio de Oro in 1924 and the name changed to Spanish Sahara.
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Spanish West Africa Sc/SG#1 issued 9th October 1949. Spanish West Africa was administered from Ifni's capital, Sidl Ifni. The stamps inscribed Spanish West Africa were used Ifni and in Spanish Sahara.
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Sri Lanka Sc470 SG591 issued 1972. Ceylon became a republic within the British Commonwealth in May 1972 and changed its name to Sri Lanka "Resplendent Island".
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Stampalia Sc1 SG3M issued 1912. Aegean Islands in the Scott catalogues, Dodecanese Islands in Gibbons. These are 12 (hence dodeca-) small islands (plus the capital, the larger island of Rhodes) in the south-east Aegean Sea (hence Aegean).
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26 Nov 2024
10:49:18am
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These are two pages that I will probably never be able to finish but since both contain #1 stamps they fit here. The only way I will be able to add to these pages is if my local long time dealer were to ever locate any of the missing stamps and sell them to me using payments. Otherwise a bit too pricey, especially since fakes also exist! I'd really have to have trust in the seller!! With NB #5 I did at one point bid on a proof or specimen which is quite a bit cheaper. It went for too much so I never did get it. I don't usually have any interest in that type of stamp, I consider them to be more like an album filler than the real thing - no offence to those of you who collect proofs or specimens. We all collect in different ways.
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Harvey, WOW...
Those are very nice. Love those Canadian Classics!
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26 Nov 2024
12:28:59pm
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Thanks Ernie! I would love to find a couple more of them while I still am around to do so. The five stamps left to get have a CV of at least $24 500!! I'm afraid, unless I get very very lucky, the most I'll ever get is maybe one or two!! They are great looking stamps and I look at those pages on a regular basis!
Question: My NB #2 has a very rare numbered postmark, either 2 or 20. This just "fell into my lap", I had no idea I even had it until a couple years ago. Does anyone of you collectors keep track of that sort of thing? I also keep my eyes open for numbered BC postmarks. They mostly seem to be #35 for Victoria but every once in a while another number shows up on a stamp I can afford, usually BC #2 which isn't usually too expensive.
Edit: The difference between NS #'s 6 and 7 and NB #'s 3 and 4 comes down to differences in shades of purple. That's a rabbit hole that might not be much fun to navigate! It's sort of like the difference between NS #2, 2i and 3 - very difficult to get right. I picked up a copy of 2i from a seller here, thankfully it came with a certificate because 2i is very similar to 3!
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Straits Settlements Japanese Occupation Sc N1/ SG Malaya J92 issued 1942.
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Re: Harvey's New Brunswick #2 with a #2 on the cancel: according to Unitrade this makes it an 1850s Andover cancel, with rarity factor of 9 (out of 10). You acquired a better item than you anticipated--congratulations!
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27 Nov 2024
09:08:41pm
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Thanks Tom!! I'm very pleased with that stamp and look at it regularly!
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Straits Settlements Sc/SG #1 issued 1st September 1867. The Straits Settlements (Singapore, Malacca and Penang) had formed part of the Indian postal administration until September 1867 and accordingly used Indian stamps prior to the overprints.
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29 Nov 2024
10:28:12am
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I don't remember anyone posting early Ecuador so here's page one with a few really nice items! The stamp at upper right is one of the early items where a GB stamp has been postmarked C41 to denote it's use in Ecuador. A few countries did this sort of thing and they are a bit difficult to find. There are, I think, 39 for Ecuador ( In Scott's A1 - A39 or you can search Guayaquil ) and so far I have only come up with one and my A13 is one of the cheaper ones! Occasionally I search the early used GB stamps hoping to run into one but so far I've only found this one!
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29 Nov 2024
03:15:43pm
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I started this collection a year or so ago. Most of the classic stuff was picked up from my local dealer for very fair prices since I don't think he has very many buyers who are interested in Ecuador. I picked up much of the more common material from sellers on SoR. The hardest stuff to find is the huge amount of overprinted material, especially the officials. I started collecting Ecuador (the hardest part is spelling the name with a "c" instead of a "q"!!) so I could have another country to collect cheaper material for. I don't buy much of this country on E-Bay, I prefer my dealer and SoR. I just wish more sellers here would get into selling Ecuador, it doesn't show up very often.
My cutoff is 1940 and I think I got the pages from someone here. I think the Liberty (regular) series and the eagle and US flag (airmail) series from 1938 are two of the most attractive series around from any country! IMHO!
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Straits Settlements British Military Administration Sc 256/SG 1 issued 1945. Following the Japanese Occupation during WW2, British Military Administration (BMA) stamps were used.
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Turkey Sc/SG #1 issued January 13, 1863. Printed in the Sate Printing Works, Constantinople. Turkey offers a satisfyingly complex entry as there are Sultanate, revolutionary and Republic issues, together with occupations and Office Abroad stamps.
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Malaya - Malacca Sc/SG #1 issued 1948. Separate issues for former Straits Settlement area of Malacca. Malacca joined the Malayan Federation on February 1, 1948.
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Malaya - Penang Sc/SG #1 issued in 1948. In 1946 Singapore and Labuan left the Straites Settlement. Malacca and Penang became part of the Malayan Federation on February 1, 1948 issuing stamps.
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angore, thank you for posting these.. Although, I don't collect worldwide per se, I love seeing this every day and getting a walk through on the wide world of philately. Thanks again and have a great week.
Ernie
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angore, thank you for posting these.. Although, I don't collect worldwide per se, I love seeing this every day and getting a walk through on the wide world of philately. Thanks again and have a great week.
As posted earlier, these are the creation of Kurt Streepy of the First Issues Collectors Club and posted on various social media sites daily, I post here and on Facebook. I am the vice president (means I do little!) of the club.
Club link for more detailed information: http://firstissues.org/
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Sudan Independence Sc 118/ SG 143 issue of 1956. On 1 January 1956, Sudan was duly declared an independent state from prior rule by Egypt and the British.
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Suez Canal Co. SG 1-4 issued 1868. The French company that built the Suez Canal transported mail between Port Said and Suez free of charge from 1859 until 1867, but then introduced a charge.
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Sungei Ujong Sc #2/SG #1 issued 1st January 1878. Sungei Ujong came under British protection in 1874. Gibbons lists it under Negri Sembilan, of which it became part in August 1895. Printed by De La Rue, London.
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Surinam Sc #1/SG #25 issued 1st October 1873. Britain first settled the area in 1651 and in 1667 swapped it with the Dutch for New York. It changed hands between Britain, Holland and France until the Dutch gained control in 1816 under the Treaty of Paris.
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Suriname (Independance) Sc424 SG802 issued in 1975. Suriname was granted independence from the Netherlands November 25, 1975.
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After 45 years of collecting stamps, I finally purchased a U.S. #1(and a #2) at Chicagopex.
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Great looking stamp and very hard to get - congratulations!!! It took me a very long time to get those two stamps at an almost reasonable price, again congrats!! The blue cancel adds about $40 to the value. I was incredibly lucky with my #1, it had a rare red cancel.
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Suriname (Autonomous State) Sc 264/ SG 427 issued in 1954. Suriname became an autonomous state within the kingdom of the Netherlands in 1954.
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Swaziland Sc #1/SG #4 issued Friday, October 18, 1889. Stamps of Transvaal 1885 - 93 overprinted in black. Dates quoted were those on which the overprinting took place in Pretoria. The stamps may have been issued later in Swaziland itself.
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FIRST ISSUE of the Day: Swaziland (Independance) Sc138 SG137 issued 1968. Swaziland was independent in C19th, administered by Transvaal from 1894 to 1906, and then South Africa until 1934. It became self-governing in 1967 and independent again in September 1968.
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Sweden Sc/SG #1 issued July 1, 1855. Perforated 14, no watermark, typography. 40,000 issued.
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