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Nice ones BeeSee, thanks for showing them. These stamps
printed on maps are frequently included when stamp printing oddities
are discussed.
I think the whole Baltic area collecting field is most interesting,
mainly pre-WWII not post Communist. |
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Nice. :)
I got one of the Republic of Central Lithuania, or Middle Lithuania, a political entity from 1920-22 existing around the area of Vilnius. Interesting stuff for sure. |
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I'm looking at my imperf. and I seee town names of Waldau, Nagle and Meshanaten.
I always wanted to get more and see if any could be matched up like a puzzle.
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There's an interesting booklet available from Barefoot (famous as a revenue catalogue publisher) dealing with these nifty Latvian stamps. According to the booklet, there are 65 different German military maps that have been found on these issues. They come from an original portfolio of 467 different maps, covering most of Poland, most of Latvia, part of Estonia and all of Lithuania. Ryan  |
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Fascinating.
Is there a general reference to the countries/issues where the stamps were printed on the back of "old" maps?
Jim Jackson
Note to Tinus NL: I like your avatar. ;-) |
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In theory, single-color maps are rarer than the two-color maps, and just to confuse things, no-visible-map might still be from the map's margin. Or it might just be printed on regular paper. |
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Thanks Joel! I guess it looks more like a postmark rather than an overprint. |
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There should be 2 types of Riga overprints. One is what is on the picture and the other is a little smaller with different font. If anyone wants a picture of the other version then let me know. |
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BeeSee,I guess you got these last week on eBay?Cause I was bidding on them also,just not very heavily  ,yeah these are cool ones with maps on the back. |
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Oh by the way,I wonder how amazing it would be to collect bunch of these and try to puzzle back the maps,I wonder if anyone ever did,if so it would be quite and accomplishment... |
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Kmncd, I did not bid, I was "watching". I did not know the status of the handstamp, but now I think I will go for one or two  |
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Here is another sweet block - it shows the map edge with some stamps without the map.  |
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| Edited by BeeSee - 08/25/2011 11:44 am |
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If anyone hasn't seen this site yet, it is worth clicking through as an explanation of the maps used: http://www.apsit.com/mapsused.htmBee's scan is identified, and the link at the bottom of the page, to the "map types" page, explains exactly what is meant by a Type Ia map. Fascinating stuff. |
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Posted 08/06/2011 11:02 am
