Guam Guard Mail Stamps

Is anyone interested in Guam Guard Mail?



M5 Sheet number issued on August 21,1930: 20,000

I've never seen that. Very neat!

This is unique



M3 sheet 1000 issued on July 10, 1930

My huge collection of 5.








Two ships have been known as SMS Cormoran:

SMS Cormoran (1892), a light cruiser built by the German Kaiserliche Marine
SMS Cormoran (1909), a transport ship built for Russia and captured by the German raider SMS Emden during WW1

Maritime Acronyms.
RMS - Royal Mail Steamship.
HMS - His (or Her) Majesty's Ship.
USS United States Ship.
USNS - United States Naval Ship (used on Naval auxiliaries in the Military Sealift Command).
SMS - Seiner Majestats Schiff (Used on German ships of the WWI era).
RNS - Royal Netherlands Ship.
HMAS - His (or Her) Majesty's Australian Ship.
HMCS - His (or Her) Majesty's Canadian Ship.
HMNZS - His (or Her) Majesty's New Zealand Ship.

Nice M1 (only made 2000 of these) and M6 (made 80,000 of these). The others were issued between 1976 and 1981).

This is M2 3000 issued on April 8, 1930

Without looking up, the M6? is curious.
It shows two types of "M" in the overprint,
The typesetter obviously had mixed font type in his box.

Curious as to how you are mounting, care to explain how you do that?

The block in my previous post was an M2. The overprinting was done at the Naval print shop in Agana. They overprint 2000 of the 2 centavos Philippine stamps and 3000 of the 4 centavos stamps. 'M' in GUAM and the 'M' in Mail are different because they were short on them. I think the stamps were overprinted in blocks of 25 since they were that short on the typeset. As you can see the M6 below when M5 - M11 were created they must have gotten enough typeset to overprint 100 stamps at a time.



M6 Sheet - note the fold over in the selvage on the top left number issued on August 21,1930: 80,000

As to how I mounted these stamps in my exhibit I used 24 pound paper
and used the self stick corners to mount the plastic holding the stamps. Then the entire thing is put in an 8 1/2 X 11 sheet protector.

Thank you.
A deep knowlege, of a somewhat specialised discipline.

M4 Sheet 4000 issued on July 10,1930

M7 sheet with errors removed





M7 sheet with errors present

Number issued 50,000 on December 29,1930

M8 sheet number issued on December 29,1930:50,000

M9 sheet number issued on December 29,1930: 25,000

M10 sheet number issued on December 29,1930: 25,000

M11 sheet number issued on December 29,1930: 25,000 right and bottom selvage removed during overprint process

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I have to see these again? :)
Seriously, for those who have enjoyed seeing these posts on Guam Guard Mail, you ought to see his entire exhibit! Very neat, and impressive!
Ray