Albanian Imperfs

I found these while browsing my collection...They are from Albania, and I believe they were not issued for the public..If anyone has more info I would appreciate it...Thnx.......Cliff

Scotts cat has some more info on these. From what I recall (I have a set) they are not really valuable, were not considered valid postage, and are quite conmon. They may have been forgeries? Perhaps someone with a scotts can quote the info they list and if not, I can tonight

Forgeries???? It could be possible..Thnx for the info, stamps101.

Scott cat 2009 vol 1 pg 293 states: "Stamps of these types, and with "TAKSE" overprint, were unauthorized and never placed in use. They are common."







are the samples they show

You would think that unauthorized stamps would be rare...Why are they so common if they were not issued to the public?

Not a clue. But that is what it said

Thnx, Tom....appreciate the info....

No problem, as far as Scott is concern they do not even have a number for them

I've just been searching for information on the same stamps and this is what has turned up so far:

• EMIRDITIES refers to ????
  
• The stamps were supposed to have been issued during a revolt in Mirdicia in 1921, but were actually issued surfaced after the revolt was surpressed.
  
• VETEKEVERRIA seems to refer to Albania
  

The set consists of:

• 5 unoverprinted stamps: 5, 10, 25 and 50 Qintar, and 1 Frank
  
• the 1 Frank stamp overprinted with "25 QUINT"
  
• 5, 10, 25 and 50 Qintar, and 1 Frank stamps each overprinted TASKE (meaning postage due) and with the word "POSTA" blocked out

Although these stamps are bogus, they have been reproduced. The reproductions have no gum and the overprints on the reproductions are printed (as displayed above) while the overprints on the originals were hand stamped. They both exist used (with false cancels) and mint.

Note that putting either VETEKEVERRIA or EMIRDITIES into a Google image search will show many of these stamps including the originals. If you put EMIRDITIES in you have to tell Google that you really want to search for 'EMIRDITIES' and not 'Emirates'.

references:
http://catalogue.klaseboer.com/vol2...l/alban2.htm
http://www.oocities.org/siliconvall...stampsv.html
and others

As google translate will not help much, I thought I would provide a bit of linguistic information, for those who want to continue the research. "Vetëkeverria" is a dialect form (for before the standardization of Albanian) meaning "self-government". In contemporary standard Albanian, one would write "vetëqeverisja". This is followed by "e Mirditiës", meaning "of Mirdita". Sometimes we also see "Republike e Mirditës", meaning "Republic of Mirdita".

This was a separatist movement that existed between July and November 1921.

Has anyone seen this or might know if it's rare and if it is what does it fall under? Thanks my friends.

Opinion:
Short answer : Forgery I am afraid.
https://goscf.com/t/17707 br /