1860, 1867 & 1873. 3 Cents, carmine Genuine Nicely engraved in épargne; watermarked with a crown, the same as the early Danish stamps. The 1860 issue has deep reddish-brown gum, which also appears to have discolored the paper to a sort of buff; the 1867 issue has dark yellow gum; and the issue of 1875 […]
English stamps with CYPRUS overprint Genuine The following is the complete set: 1/2d., rose, script watermark, “halfpenny”, plates 12, 15 & 19. 1d., red, letters in all corners, Crown watermark, plates 174, 181, 184, 193, 196, 201, 205, 208, 215, 216, 217, 218 & 220. 2 1/2d., pink, Orb watermark, plates 14 & 15. 4d., […]
1855. 2 Reales, crimson. Genuine Engraved in épargne, on greenish-blue wove paper; watermarked very distinctly with loops at the top and bottom. The circle round the queen’s head contains seventy-three pearls; and this will have to be particularly noted, as being the chief test of the genuine. The pearls are all the same size, and […]
The Tunis Feldpost stamp is one of the classics of WW2 philately. The history behind them and Rommel’s Afrika Korps is fascinating. Not so fascinating is the forgeries of these stamps, which are very common. One of the resources available to aid the collector of these stamps is the book “Die Tunispäckchenmarke und die Palmenstempel” […]
Postmark no. 45 (a) of 78 in use in German East Africa. MOSCHI in blue ink. In use from 1898, 17. November 1900 – 28. October 1901, May/November 1904. Seen on the following stamps (Michel no.): German East Africa 1 – 37 German East Africa 39 Source: Die Postwertzeichen und Entwertungen der Deutschen Postanstalten in […]
1863. 1/2, 2, 4 Reales & 1 Peso. Genuine Beautifully engraved in taille-douce, on thick, yellowish-white wove paper; machine-perforated 12; very cleanly cut. Moens gives the perforation as being 14, but this is a mistake; at any rate, all the copies I possess, or have ever seen, are perforated 12. The groundwork, behind the whole […]
1856-1875. Various values. Genuine. 8 Types Very roughly engraved, in épargne, on thin, very coarsely-grained, colored wove paper. The profile of the goddess of Liberty (evidently copied from the French stamps of 1849) is that utterly impossible outline, commonly called “classical”, which consists of a straight line, drawn from the top of the forehead, where […]
1860. 5 Centavos, blue. Genuine Lithographed, in various shades of more or less pale, chalky blue, on moderately stout, rough laid paper, and also on plain wove paper, the latter being rare; indeed, I have not yet seen them on wove, though I know that they exist. The letters of CORDOBA are thick, almost as […]
1861. 2 Cents, green. Genuine Badly lithographed, on thick, very soft, coarsely-wove paper. The groundwork behind the bust is composed of crossed, vertical and horizontal lines. This is very plain on the left side of the stamp; but near the back of the head the lines are so dark, and so very close together, that […]
1859. 5, 10 and 20 Centavos. These are the stamps with a white diamond at the top of the stamp, and a four-pointed, white star before CONFED., and another after NACIONALES. 5 c. Genuine Lithographed, in rosy-lilac and in grey-lilac, on fairly stout, white wove paper. Also on laid paper. The white diamond at the […]