What Country Are These From?

The postage due stamp is still a postage stamp, but a special usage. Most modern catalogs list special usage postage stamps separate from regular postage.

Examples of special usage postage stamps include -- semipostals, airmails, special delivery, certified mail, postage due, military, official, newspaper, parcel post...

For users of Scott catalogs, those stamps are sometimes referred to as BOB (Back Of Book) stamps. There are some collectors who refuse to collect BOB; likewise, there are some collectors who only collect BOB. Then there are some collectors who just like any little piece of paper with nifty printing on it!

Wow, interesting, well I still have them as a part of my "Country's" collection.
Thank you for the information :D

Oh man, oh man. I have bought four Country lots(.99-1.04) of stamps from
a nice man on ebay, and he always sends me a little envelope wiht free
stamps, he always includes at least 70 free ones, and there is always at
least 10 countries in them.

Today, I got my last packet from Checkoslovenia him before leaving to mexico, and there is
at least 20 Countries in the free envelope, most of which I dont know what
they are, so I will post up some
pictures and hopefuly we can have some fun decifering the Stamps, WOooT!

I went through the packet and I was able to find most of the
Orignin of the stmaps, I got some from Israel, Gabon, Syrian Arab Republic, India, Hungary, Spain, Algeria, New Caledonia, Congo/Belgish Congo, Iran, Buthan, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Bangladesh, Guinea Portuguesa/española, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Guinea, Strait Settlements, Upper Volta, Jordan, Sri Lanka, Norway, and Colombia!
But I was not able to find out what these are.
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Thanks

1. Turkey
2. French Equatorial Africa
3. Iran (issued in 1949, despite what it might suggest on the stamp)
4. Great Britain
5. North Korea

Thanks Khj.

Is French Equatorial Africa a country? or did it
used to be a French Colony?

By the way, the first stamp (from Turkey) is an official stamp, one of those special usage stamps mentioned in an earlier post.

French Equatorial Africa was a French Colony that was divided in 1958 into 4 countries that are known today as Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, and Gabon.

Interesting to note how far the influence of Arabic extends. That Turkish official stamp inscribed 'RESMI' would be perfectly understood in Indonesia, where the same Arabic word is used to mean 'official'. Istanbul to Merauke - a fair stretch

French Equatorial Africa was established as Federation of French colonies in 1886 with it's 1st Commissiner General, Pierre de Brazza, hence Brazzaville. Postally the aera was refered to as Gabon 1886-89, Gabon-Congo 1889-91, French Congo 1891-1904, Gabon 1904-07, French Congo-Gabon 1910. Starting in 1907 Gabon & Middle Congo postally were seperated. Ubangi-Shari-Tchad issued in 1915-22, Chad was split away in 1922. Starting in 1924 stamps were overprinted "French Equatoriale Francaise" for use in all four colonies.
Cameroun was included not postally from 1942-45 under the Free-French.

Mike's got the eye and the brain for details!

If you only want a hand-waved answer, I'm around.

Given the gradual infiltration of Mogul influence on Indian
history, it seems rather obvious that this would occur.
Indian history (as far as I was concerned) was not dealt with in
schooling, and it comes as quite a surprise, at the depth and breadth of Indian influence in Asia.

I was looking for (unsuccessfully) to find the paragraph
that illustrated a major difference in the two religions
Hindu and Muslim, and how, an early Muslim trader, entering a home
anywhere in the vast areas east or west of the port he called home, would immediately feel at home, when a guest, with customs,
ideals and cuisine that remained constant, no matter where he travelled.

The influence of India is well summed up with the following.

A famous Indian philosopher has written, "Half the world moves on independent
foundations which Hinduism supplied. China and Japan, Tibet and Siam, Burma
and Ceylon look to India as their spiritual home."

From the first century A.D. colonists from India sailed across the seas to Burma,
Malaya, Borneo, Java, Indochina, and Ceylon. Many kingdoms were established in
Greater India. One area of Indian colonization was in Kambuja (Cambodia), where
several Hindu dynasties rose and fell. One of the most famous was that of the Khmer
kings, who, about the year 1100 A.D., built the magnificent temple of Angkor Wat. This
edifice, dedicated to Shiva, covered three and a half square miles. With its galleries
covered with fine bas-reliefs of scenes from the Hindu epics, it must be acknowledged
one of the greatest religious monuments ever constructed by man.

Another famous colonial Indian dynasty was the Sailendra, which built up a wide-flung
empire in Malaya, Siam, Java, and Bali. Followers of Buddhism, the Sailendras built
many splendid temples, including the greatest Buddhist shrine in the world at Borobudur
in Java.

Referring to the diffusion of Indian culture to Indochina, Malaya, Sumatra, and Java, an
Indian historian writes: "Indian religion, Indian culture, Indian laws and Indian
government moulded the lives of the more primitive races all over this wide region, and
they imbibed a more elevated moral spirit and a higher intellectual taste through the art
and literature of India."

We are growing rather abstruse here (and dare I say elitist) but the claim that the Sailendras were of Indian origin is generally discredited these days. The accepted theory is that they were Javanese, although Indian-influenced in matters of religion and culture.

The beginning of the Muslim influence in Indonesia is credited to missionaries, the Wali Songo or Nine Walis, from Kathiawar (i.e. Jasdan, Nawanagar, Soruth and Wadhwan amongst others) in India as well, but later the influences were directly from the Arabian Peninsula, particularly Yemen. There are still many Yemeni Arabs in Indonesia, including a certain clergyman from Solo, in Central Java. The city of Kudus on the North coast of Java derives its name from the Arabic al-Quds - the Pure. Interesting, then, that it's a centre for the manufacture of kretek cigarettes.

That may not be what the author intended.
I came away with the feeling that due to early Indian
endeavors, Indian influence laid the important conduit for the customs of the subcontinent to pass to the areas discussed during the subsequent centuries.
It wasn't till the middle ages that the areas came into the hands of the Muslim invaders.
I personally find it hard to accept missionaries as sufficient
influence to change a country's ideals and language in contrast to trade and commerce.

guess that is where the Gabon Monkey got it's name from.. being found in that region.