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Help with strange Bulgarian stamps and unlisted issues -
Updated 2005-05-30
On this page I will show
some Bulgarian stamps, revenues etc which I have not been able to identify.
Also, if YOU have Bulgarian items which you cannot identify, send me a picture
to post on this page to see if someone on the "Net" can help us with information...
2005-05-30:
Here are some unknown revenues that I have found on various Bulgarian documents.
#1 is on a document dated 1938, while #2 and #3 are from 1926.
If you know more about any of these and why they were issued, I would be grateful
for your contribution!
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2004-08-26 (H. Pedersen, Denmark):
I recently bought these stamps in an auction. They are supposed to originate from
sheets with large "SPECIMEN" overprints, re. the red "fields". If this is the case,
these issues are very rare. I would like to receive more information about these
issues and overprints.
ANSWER:
2004-12-17
(N. Penev, Bulgaria):
This is from a set of the second Bulgarian issue of 1881 with red overprint OBRAZETS
(Specimen). The large red overprint was made diagonally on sheets of all stamps
from the second issue, printed in St. Petersburg, Russia.
2003-07-27:
This mint postal stationary was offered in an auction a little while ago. The
text says "Bulgarie", but I haven't found this card in my cataloges. The motive
on the card doesn't look like any Bulgarian stamp either. Is there anybody out
there who has information about this postal stationary??
ANSWER:
2003-10-12
(N. Penev, Bulgaria and T. Hitzler, Germany):
This postal stationary
is an essay printed in 1889 in Vienna. There exists about 30 different
cards in 3 types printed on different types of paper. The motive is
called "Ferdinand s kalpak" in Bulgarian ("Ferdinand with hat"). Essays
of stamps with the same motive also exist. Ferdinand refused these essays,
and instead the "Small lion" stamps and postal stationaries were printed in Paris.
2003-02-12
(Fokko Kool, The Netherlands):
Who knows more about this issue?
The text reads: "Supreme Macedonian-Odrin Committee" The letters of the
10' "stamp" are bigger than the letters of the 20'"stamp". Note also
the mistake in the text of the 10' "stamp", reading: "Odrinoki" instead of
"Odrinski". Also the decoration in the background differs between the
two values. Thank you! Fokko Kool
ANSWER:
2004-08-24
(H. Pedersen, Denmark):
These are political cinderella stamps from
The Macedonian Committee to show that you supported their case. The stamps were
attached to letters along the postal franking, but had no postal validity.
According to the postal administration it was even forbidden to use these stamps
on letters. The stamps were issued in 1902, and exist as 10 St. violet, 20 St.
blue, 50 St. green and 1 Lew red. In 1906 a second series was issued with 7
stamps with the "Bulgarian Lion" as motive.
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