Who Was That On The Telephone [stamp], Dear?

Why, Leopold II, of course.

Close cousins to the telegraph stamps, here are a couple telephone stamps from the 1890 set of Belgium:

The second value (Yv#2)


and the high value (Yv#8)


Scott doesn't list these. The numbers are from Yvert.

What other telephone stamps can you show? (Not postage stamps with a telephone topical...actual telephone stamps.)

This site may be of interest (British telephone stamp):

http://strowger-net.telefoonmuseum....t_stamp.html

and Wiki pages show examples of telephone stamps from Bavaria, Belgium, France, Monaco and the UK

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C...phone_stamps

Bavaria 1894

It looks like the Bavaria example would have paid for a call between 3 and 5 minutes in length.

The Belgium link in 22crows' post shows a large se-tenant attachment that I had not seen before...it is mentioned but not pictured in my Yvert. There is pricing for 'mint with', 'mint without', and 'used without'.

A momentary bout of catalogue blindness has lifted, and I see that Yvert calls for these to be perf 11.5. Someone with a COB catalogue have a more complete reading of what is going on here? I have a handful of examples and they are all imperf.

[edit: I had a chance to check Byrum, and his listings match Yvert...no mention of imperfs.]