Greece-Crete Id.

I am having the devil of a job in finding stuff tonight.
Seek help in securing an ID for these please.
The Crete opt looks like a type 38, but it is not listed on the 10 Lepta
The trident I have no idea perhaps a fiscal?
Anyhows I'll pass it over to the sage.

devil and sage in one posting?

Well one has to be flexible, deep space pilot.
Just prior, I was cataloguing SG102 Crete,
Britomartis whom appeared to be suckling two griffons.

The first appears to be Crete Michel #58. I'm not having much luck with the other two.

John

Thanks John, appreciate your time.

The last appears to be Scott 40. I don't know how I missed that earlier.

John

I think the trident is a Russian post office in Crete from 1899. Does the control marking appear to be the Russian double eagle?

Thankyou Cjd

Crete: (Rethymo)
Russian sphere of administration
June 1899
Type 3 litho in Athens
Control mark of Russ dble eagle in circle.
Perf 11.5 (Star at each side-figures at foot shaded)

No excuse for this one, I wouldn't have got that easily.

The overprint on the 3 lepta translates into English as B. Hpeiros. Hpeiros is Epirus. It's catalogued in Scott as Epirus under Greek Occupation 1914-15 N17, CV $7.25, in SG as Northern Epirus, SG70 if engraved, SG78 if litho

rod, that Russian office is a very nice stamp.

Goodness, rot your socks.
As soon as I opened Epirus, there it was, staring me in the face.
I must have looked 3 times before.
Greek occup of Northern Epirus
Thanks Jubilee.
Collin, yes I particularly like the ornate trident, a sign of the Mediterranean if there ever was :)

Hello rod222. Sorry I didn't see this before - it takes me a few days to wake up nowadays. The bottom stamp (I have a couple and love them): #960;#961;#959;#963;#969;#961;#953;#957;#972;#957; #964;#945;#967;#965;#948;#961;#959;#956;#949;#943;#959;#957; (prosorinón taxidromeíon) means provisional mail which has always intrigued me. #960;#961;#959;#963;.#964;#945;#967;#965;. is usually overprinted on existing stamps until new official ones are ready. But with these I ask myself, if they had time to print this provisional stamp couldn't they have used the same time and printing resources to print the real McCoy? I asked this question to a Greek contact of mine last autumn who said he'll get back to me. Never did. Late, but hopefully it still helps.

Sorry Rod, I just noticed that SCF does not support Greek.

Cheers Tony,
I wonder perhaps "provisional" was in response to an impending rate rise.
I notice these stamps have two types, as mine (with stars) and others without stars.
Thanks for addressing my query.

Hi Rod.
I think I have partially answered my own question with regards to the "provisional" tridents. In 1889 there was a series of coat-of-arms in use and in 1890 the Government of Crete issued a new series with Prince George and a bunch of the mythological chappies using lepta and drachmi instead of the previous metallik and grosion. Our tridents (with and without stars) were probably issued to bridge the design and printing time: late '89 to early '90. Does that make any sense?

Certainly Tony
nicely done Sir, SCF does it again.