Could You Help?

I was searching for republik maluku selatan stamps and I found this forum with this information. I would like to ask you a question: I was given lots of old stuff which includes this originals stamps (17 stamps - republik maluku selatan) it's written on the wright top corner pos postage. could you help and tell me more about this stamps.

Thxs

Kika

Hi Kika
We need pics to best tell what you have .
Can you post some?

These aren't real stamps. The Republic of the South Moluccas (Indonesian: Republik Maluku Selatan, RMS), was a self-proclaimed republic in the South Moluccas (now part of Indonesia), founded April 25, 1950. A government-in-exile exists to this day in the Netherlands. In 1991 Johan Manusama the first president-in-exile, from 1966 to 1993, brought the RMS into the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation.

This link may give you more information on these so-called "bogus" stamps:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postag...uth_Moluccas

These are Bogus stamps, purely with collectors in mind.

The designs, I have to say, are rather attractive.

The original 17 overprinted stamps have a full listing in the SG Part 21 South-East Asia catalogue.

I should add that they are priced mint only with a set price of £500 in the 2004 edition.

welcome kika.

Generally considered bogus:


first overprints:


Flag:


General geographic area:


Riga Stamps (you can purchase here)


Part Sheet of butterfly triangulars from my collection:


I think I have the full set of Maluku so if you want particular images please ask.
They come perforated and imperforated.

PS Kika. "could you help" is not a good thread title,
people who may wish to search for Maluka later on,
will have no guide to your post.

If you can, please change the title to
something like "Maluku Query" etc

Thanks, and again welcome :)

Maluku Selatan got ripped off, they should never have been included with Indonesia, they were promised independence. Just like Timor Leste - yet the disfunctional UN still managed to give belated independence to them.