Definitives From Around The World

Mexico, 1864:




Technically speaking, unissued without overprint, but they give a nice look at the design.

...and they looked so good to me!

Sorry...

Croatia 1943-44. I haven't done anything with them yet; this is just as they came to me.



The stamps depict Ante Pavelic, head of the puppet state in Croatia during World War II.

I've heard that the U.S. 1893 Columbian Exposition Issue is often considered the first commemorative. Agree? Or are there other candidates?

A workhorse, a regular issue, today we consider a definitive. So, although the term wasn't used then ( It didn't need to be as pointed out), it can be used now in 2011. So yes they were considered just 'postage stamps" in the classical era, but, by our definition, they are also definitives.

Great show! Back to the modern stuff, Tuvalu again, this time the 2006 Coral definitives. They are hard to get with good cncels being so dark, it took a while to get a nice used set

Bee, those coral reefs are sharp stamps.


The Columbians are probably the first U.S. commemoratives, if you don't count the memorial issues for deceased presidents.

Other issuers probably have good claims for beating out the U.S. New South Wales issued a Centenary set May 1, 1888. Commemorative? Probably.

The U.S. Columbians are probably the first serious attempt to fleece collectors with a combination of a large set and ridiculously high top values.

Here is a closeup of the high value of the Croatia set above, Scott #80:

I will have to find nice used stamps of the Croatia set. Thanks for showing CjD

Back in the days when the Colonial Powers needed to provide postage stamps to their colonies,many would simply stamp the name of the colony on a faceplate of the stamp design, and the denomination. Portugal did this particularly.



Angra 1897 5c orange "King Carlos"




Angola 1914 1c blue green, 1 1/2c lilac brown, 2c carmine "Ceres"

Again, Portugal would stamp the name and denomination on the appropriately colored stamp. An inexpensive way to make definitives.


Anjouan 1892 1c black/blue & 2c brown/buff "Navigation and Commerce"

The French did likewise, although here just the name of the colony was stamped, as the denomination was already there.

An inexpensive way to populate the colonies with postage stamps, or, as we we might call them now, definitives.

Here is a card that just came my way with an assortment of the basic Portugal versions of the Ceres issues:




A closeup:

France also might take a French Colonies stamp, in this case, the 1881 Commerce issue, and overprint it for a particular colony/department, in this case, Reunion.

lithograving

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Would you like to have this 30 Briefpost Zone Francaise stamp?

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One more try for Definitives - Dauermarkenserie!

Women of in German history a German definitive series is from the November 13 , 1986 until the January 16 , 2003 was released. Before the reunification of Germany the stamps only in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin had issued since 1990 they validity in all Germany. There are a total of 39 values (Berlin: 17)










Sorry I do not have all 39 stamps and do not know which ones came after the reunification.



Here is a link with all the stamps

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frauen...n_Geschichte

I guess you'd consider these Hawaiian stamps "definitives":

The 1931 definitive set of Hyderabad:



and some proofs of the 1927 definitive set from Indore







and the issued version of the 1 Rupee stamp



and a curiosity from the same set:



The Indore Post Office specifically ordered these stamps imperf from the printers, Perkins, Bacon, though not very many are known actually used. Clearly, scissors were no longer on general issue in Indore post offices by the late 1930s.

Wow, bicolor Indore? (I skip right over Indore when I flip through the catalogue.)

You can tell those weren't made in the soapworks.

A couple of my favourite series apart from Machins

The 1949 Swiss Landscape set



The 1975 Industry and Technology set (missing 180 and 190) from 1975