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Armenia #280, but probably a forgery even though these stamps have minimal value.
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Hi,
I believe this is the original design but likely a reprint given the saturation of colour and the relative blotchiness of the print.
The forgery that I've seen described has differences in the bottom left frame and below the figure 3 at the top.
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Many, many thanks.
First, as much as I poured over this stamp, I did not catch the 3 in the upper left. Old age eye sight. 
Second, for a not really WW collector, what are the defining characteristics that make this stamp Armenian?
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I suppose one must have some experience with them in order to recognize these as Armenian. Armenia uses a different script so that is a first clue. I cannot decipher it, but I know what it looks like. It is a bit of a mixture between our latin alphabet and Greek and cyrillic. This stamp is from the 1920s, when Armenia was - for a short time - an independent republic, which was called the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia between 1920 and 1922. The abbreviation of this in Armenian is what you see under the Soviet hammer and sickle.
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Jansimon,
Many thanks. I noticed the U.b. or U.h.(?) under the hammer and sickle, but was unable to discover what it meant.
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The Z-shaped letters (or here perhaps more like sigma-shaped letters) are the Armenian capital letter H.
The same letter was used in the many earlier Armenian stamps as a one letter overprint on Russian arms definitive stamps.
The Armenian name for the country is Hayastan.
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Nigel,
Thanks for the information. If I understand what you have told me, the lines on both sides of the U.b (?), the Z-shapes are actually Armenian alphabet letters. I believe that may be what Jansimon was also trying to tell me. I would never in a million years ever thought that.
Well I have at least 1 Armenian stamp (forgery/reprint) in my collection.
Again thanks to all for the information. It helped my head ache go away.
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Is it even a stamp or just a cut out?
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Armenia #280, but probably a forgery even though these stamps have minimal value.
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Hi,
I believe this is the original design but likely a reprint given the saturation of colour and the relative blotchiness of the print.
The forgery that I've seen described has differences in the bottom left frame and below the figure 3 at the top.
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Many, many thanks.
First, as much as I poured over this stamp, I did not catch the 3 in the upper left. Old age eye sight.
Second, for a not really WW collector, what are the defining characteristics that make this stamp Armenian?
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I suppose one must have some experience with them in order to recognize these as Armenian. Armenia uses a different script so that is a first clue. I cannot decipher it, but I know what it looks like. It is a bit of a mixture between our latin alphabet and Greek and cyrillic. This stamp is from the 1920s, when Armenia was - for a short time - an independent republic, which was called the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia between 1920 and 1922. The abbreviation of this in Armenian is what you see under the Soviet hammer and sickle.
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Jansimon,
Many thanks. I noticed the U.b. or U.h.(?) under the hammer and sickle, but was unable to discover what it meant.
Never to old to learn something new. And I thought the W/F were hard.
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re: Another Unknown
The Z-shaped letters (or here perhaps more like sigma-shaped letters) are the Armenian capital letter H.
The same letter was used in the many earlier Armenian stamps as a one letter overprint on Russian arms definitive stamps.
The Armenian name for the country is Hayastan.
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Nigel,
Thanks for the information. If I understand what you have told me, the lines on both sides of the U.b (?), the Z-shapes are actually Armenian alphabet letters. I believe that may be what Jansimon was also trying to tell me. I would never in a million years ever thought that.
Well I have at least 1 Armenian stamp (forgery/reprint) in my collection.
Again thanks to all for the information. It helped my head ache go away.
Mel
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