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I came across this one and it looks strange to me it has printing on both sides is this normal?   |
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Tina, can you make the scan bigger? I can't tell what the stamp is.
I'm guessing it's one of those European war era issues in which there was a shortage of paper and stamps were printed on the back of large used paper sheets, such as maps...
But need to see the stamp more clearly to try to verify. |
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Latvian stamp printed on the back of a map. Very interesting. Latvia has the most common & documented of the map stamps. http://www.apsit.com/mapintro.htmTry emailing Bill Apsit at bill@apsit.com He should be able to give you real details. Mike |
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Actually......it's not a map......it is printed on unfinished banknotes.
Very thick with a "silky" feeling. |
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Yes, banknotes it is! Busy looking at the front of the stamp, forgot to look at the back!! |
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Very cool collection, Nr-notrare. |
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There's about 6-8 Latvian stamps (a few are Airmails) printed on unfinished banknotes....
1919-1922 or so it was more important to have stamps than inflationary Rublis. |
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Thanks for all the info.I learn more and more everyday from all of you and i'm grateful for all the nice and patient people with me.Does anybody know the scott # to it? I'm sure you do nr-notrare since you have several of them,I'm trying to figure out how to read the scott catalog still and what better way then to practice |
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tina, the Scott # of yours is B4 which is a semi-postal. I seem to have one similar - Scott # 63. It has the blue note back.  They remind me of those cards you used to get as a kid with a stick of gum. You get enough of them and you could complete the picture with their backsides. Sounds like fun to reassemble one of those banknotes. OG |
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Posted 07/11/2009 4:57 pm
