Need ID Help

I went through a large box of old world wide stamps.

Here are a few that I am having trouble with.



Thanks for the help

L to R, North German Confederation (exceptionally nice 3x on piece with perfect cancels); 7500 - Russia; India - Travancore; Wurttemburg (listed before Germany in Scott); Belgium; Austria newspaper stamp; Hungary 1st issue.

Don't soak the 3 on 1 piece, it's a beauty as she is.

The Hungarian one is engraved (first came the litographed stamps, then in a few month appeared the engraved ones), with Budapest/73.Nov.13/Fõposta (Maine Post Office). The cancellation is common, still this is somehow early usage. This type of postmark was used from 1873, yours is from november 1873.

Wadmalatz - Looking at the Hungarian Stamp I tink it's a Scott #3 is that correct? Your statement makes me think other wise. Your comment "used from 1873" did you mean 1874?

I picked up the collection from an antique dealer who had several boxes of stamps in his place and first day covers I paid $75 dollars for evreything he had, including a 1930 Scott Stamp catalogue, an interesting find.

Thank you

The 3x Stamps is North German Postal Issue Scott #1
The russian is Scott #201
The India is Scott #12
The Wurttemburg is Scott #57
The Belguim is Scott #19
The Austria is Scott #463
The Hungarian is Scott #9 (engraved)
Whew I hope I did this right.
Thanks for all the help

Two German-area corrections, the North German Confederation are Scott #16; the first issue is rouletted, yours are perforated. Also, your stamp is Wurttemberg #60, not #57.

Correct on the #16 to my defense I am using a Scott Catalogue from 1930 so it may be a little out dated . I'll check the latest catalogue at the library. They must have found variations.

Thank you for the corrections.

The 1871 Hungarian issue:


-Hungarian Stamp Catalogue, Introduction
Here`s the known apparition of thes issues in 1871:
Lithography: Engraved:
2 kr / June 11 / July 7
3 kr / May 29 / July 16
5 kr / May 5 (first appeared) / June 15
10kr / June 26 / July 2
15kr / June 26 / July 14
25kr / June 23 / Aug 29
So the engraved stamps appeared at post offices in the same 1871 year, starting with June 15.
The date order in hungarian language is Year/Month/Day. It seems to me, that the first number on the postmark is `73. Again: the first known engraved 5 kr was used in 15.06.1871. Used litho stamps are pretty rare, as you see, they were replaced pretty fast by engraved ones. Of course there were several (litho and copper) plates used, these were identified.

Wadmalatz - Thank you for the interesting write up of the history, I picked up some very cool stamps from this lot. Still have a few more boxes to go through, should be fun as to what I find.