Running The Numbers: How High Can We Count With Stamps?

With an estimated 1.5 different stamps having been issued, how high can we count with stamp examples? The idea is to follow the numbers, in sequence, and see how far this can go before we're stumped. Stamps from any nation can be posted, and the monetary unit doesn't matter, just the number the stamp shows. Here is the U.S. 1-cent Lincoln, Scott 1113 of 1959. to start things off.



Next, we need a 2, 3, 4 etc.

Let's see how high this thing can go!

Is that 1.5 million?

Here's a 2c from New Zealand.
SG#916, 1970



Steve

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Is that 1.5 million?

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1.5 million is my best estimate based on past, rumored data. In other words, it could be all wrong!

1898 4c Trans-Mississippi issue

Around 1971 Canadian 5 Cent

The 6c Washington from the "Herman Herst" set of 1869 proofs

Are fractional amounts allowed?



Great Britain 6.5 pence

If it fits between, why not!

Now we need a seven!

Just filling in some gaps.












Sorry it's a bit blurry.

Steve

Steve

I don't know the catalog # but here is a nine from Ireland


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This is my 1912 ten cent Ben Franklin perfin that everybody is probably getting tired of seeing!

Gussyboy1

Here's one of my gems (thanks Grandpa).

From Soviet Occupied Germany, 1945.
Translation: Land Reform, Province of Saxony.

I think this stamp might be rice paper. At any rate, it is nearly transparent. And that's with its original gum.

If anyone knows more about this stamp and would like to share, I know I for one would be interested.



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Well, I did find a few links on the German Wikipedia site that reference a picture of a 6 Pf (100 Pfennige = 1 DM) stamp of similar design (it's green). While there is some text on the topic of land reform, there's not much on the stamp itself. One of the sites mentions (as best I can tell from the translation) that in 1946, money being tight, they switched to "cigarette paper", but I believe that may be referring to the 6 Pf stamp, as that stamp is clearly on a coarse, thick paper.

The land reform bit is interesting. (Note: I got this from an article in English). From 1945 to 1949, the Russians imposed a forced "land reform". Any estates with 100 or more hectares, with the exception of Church estates and a few "experimental" farms were confiscated without any form of compensation to be redistributed to "new farmers" in 5-10 hectare parcels. The former owners, Junkers (even antifascists), Nazis, and large landowners -- "the distinctions between them were not sharply drawn" -- were driven off their lands, often quite brutally "without allowing them time to take their personal effects with them", and sometimes even murdered.