Cyprus

Hi to all

These were in a packet of stamps from the local thrift shop.
It was a pack of 50 for fifty cents. Mostly current Australian, but sometimes this thrift shop seeds the packets with older stamps.
Did she get a bargain.
Regards,

Horamakhet

Horamkhet, nice stamps. I am bidding on a lot that contains most of these. You got good value in that pack for 50 cents and as far as the stamps shown, all are valued at 20 cents except for one which goes for 35 cents.

Have you checked the 1 Piastre for the perf 13½x12½ variety? It's £27 used (and £550 mint!) this year.

Hi tonymacq
I did not know that, thanks for the tip, I will check pronto
Horamakhet

Hi tonymacq

No such luck
Horamakhet

50 cents would be an easy drop for me!

Ah, well, can't win 'em all ...

Hi

Just found you all and wanted to share some info with the opening poster regarding the stamps in question.

I use Stanley Gibbons catalogue refernces and prices for the stamps from left to right are as follows (all from 1938):
SG 152 = 30p (GBP)
SG 154 = 25p
SG 155a = 55p
SG 164 = 30p
SG 165 = 30p

There are a couple though that may be of interest - one is the orang 1 Piastre as it carries the postmark of Platres (a small mountain village just below Mount Olympus at Troodos) and the violet 1 and 1/2 Piastre carries an unusual postmark which I cannot quite identify (needs more research). Quite often a good postmark can be worth more than the stamp so you may have a little more value there than you originally thought.

Now, a one in a thousand shot - the orange 1 Piastre stamp does have a rare perforation gauge which puts it into the hundreds of pounds mark. One way to tell is to place the perforations of the top of the orange stamp against either of the green or violet stamps. If the perforations form a perfect circle when place perforation to perforation - then you have the common stamp. If it's not possible to make perfect circles, I suggest you take it to a local dealer and ask them to check the perforation measurements just to be sure.

Fingers crossed you have one but we haven't come across one yet!

Regards
Michele
www.CyprusStamps.co.uk (in sunny Cyprus)

I found these in a club auction lot I bought a while back and just now trying to catalog.

Based on the overprint font and size, not to mention the spelling on that third one, they appear to be some old forgeries.

Can anyone verify?

Thanks in advance,

Al

Green half Piastre has a Famagusta post mark while the 11/2 piastre sports a Lefkoniko postmark. Both Famagusta and Lefkoniko are now in the Turkish occupied part of Cyprus. If I am not mistaken, the two postmarks were in use up to 1974 when the two towns were occupied.

BreefmackUSA your three are unfortunately forgeries in as much as the stamps used for the overprints. Those stamps were never overprinted for use in Cyprus. The middle stamp has the wrong plate number. Your example looks like a plate 5 (the numeral below the 'f' in the top right corner)only plate 14 and 15 of this particular issue were overprinted with 'CYPRUS'

BreefmackUSA: Nice forgeries.The last one in particular.It would be interesting to
know the authors of these.Quiet uncommon really.
http://stampforgeries.com/forged-stamps-of-cyprus/

Thank you Moose!

Not to worry, there are quite a few more in the lot that aren't fake!

Al

Perf12:

Thanks for the link!

VELLY INTELLESTINK!!

Al