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Posted 05/30/2010   10:09 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add Wiltat2 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Well here I am again asking for your help in getting the value of some more of the stamps my dad left and I have to distribute between my sisters and myself.
I have added 3 pictures, there are actually 5 of each type of stamp with the face value listed below.

Type one face values: 80 Pf, 1 Mark, 2 Mark, 3 Mark, 5 Mark

Type two face value: 2 1/2 Pf (I have 2 of these), 3 Pf, 5 Pf, 10 Pf, 15 Pf

Type three face value: 2 1/2 PF (I have 3 of these), 3 PF, 5 PF

Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.








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Posted 05/31/2010   01:16 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Upper Silesia

stamps issued during a plebiscite in 1921
to decide the future of the district

All minimal CV under $1

Nice stamps though
(any overprinted 20 mars 1921 are valuable)

hope this helps
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Posted 05/31/2010   09:48 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Wiltat2 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I was hoping someone could find the Scott's value, I was not able to find them in the catalog. These are the last of over 500 stamps that I have been getting values from Scott's for to try to fairly distribute between my sisters and myself as part of my dad's wishes when he passed on.
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Posted 05/31/2010   10:11 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Try Germany Upper Silesia, should be around Scott 27 >

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Posted 06/02/2010   9:14 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Wiltat2 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Well another 2 hours pouring over the 2010 Scott's catalog, trying to find these stamps, that my wife and I will never get back.

rod222you said "Try Germany Upper Silesia, should be around Scott 27".

Not sure what you mean by Scott 27.

I could not find any Silesia or Silesie any where in the Germany part of the 2010 Scott catalog.

I wish some one could find it and provide the location in the catalog or the reference numbers from the catalog or page number or some thing. We have spent many hours researching these stamps and need to get this finished. These are the last ones we need to get the info on so we can get them divided up.

Would greatly appreciate some help from someone.
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Posted 06/02/2010   9:27 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Katchem_ash to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Why are you being so hostile? It should be at the end of the german section if I remember correctly. People will help, but please don't be rude or hostile.
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Posted 06/02/2010   9:35 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi Wiltat2,

Scott is the major catalogue for the US,
Here in Australia we use stanley Gibbons.

I have all my stamps catalogued under stanley gibbons,
to offer you assistance I merely googled "Upper Silesia"
images, and up popped one of your examples.

The advice suggested Upper Silesia was at the end of Germany
in the Scott catalogue and one of your issues
was Scott catalogue number 27

I cannot help you further than that if you still cannot find it in the catalogue.

Perhaps try looking in the index under the following,
I am sure they must be listed somewhere.

Silesia~Upper
Upper Silesia
Germany Plebiscite



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Edited by rod222 - 06/02/2010 9:41 pm
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Posted 06/02/2010   11:13 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Wiltat2 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I did not think I was being hostile. If I seem that way I am sorry.

I was only trying to get some help. People on this site have been very helpful in the past and rod222 is being helpful, but apparently they use a different catalog in Australia than we in the US use. I had no idea since I am not a stamp collector. My dad got started by his mom and had 546 stamps mostly from WWII time frame and Europe since he was there. I have been tasked with distributing them and want to insure that I do so fairly based on value and selection. And after spending considerable time over the past year I have to get finished and am frustrated and tired of dealing with it. And these 15 stamps are the last ones I need to identify the value of and since all of the others are from Scott's I think I should use Scott's for these as well so no one can say any thing was not done properly and I just am not having any luck finding these in the Scott's catalog.

I am sorry if I offended anyone I did not mean to.
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Posted 06/04/2010   8:18 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Wiltat2 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you rod222 for your help.

We went back to the Library today and found an index in the back of Volume 3 of the Scott's catalog (It's the one for Germany).

It listed Upper Silesia as being in Volume 6 and sure enough there were the stamps we where trying to get the value of.
From .25 to 2.75.

Now I have the Scott value for all of the stamps that my dad left, so I can get them sorted and distributed.

And thank all of the other people who have helped me in the past year trying to get this finished.
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Posted 06/04/2010   9:57 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Glad to be of service.

For those interested in Upper Silesia.

The Overprints on the delectable German Art Deco fonts.
The initials stand for
"Commission de Govornment Haute Silesie" or something similar


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