Rare Greece Inverted?? 1 Other Odd Greece Cant Find In Book

I have a stamp similar to UFO's second image.



The words at the top read "Kingdom of Greece". I deciphered the words around the coat of arms as "official mobile" (at least, that's what Google Translate came up with). I don't know if that means the stamp is an official stamp, or a revenue stamp. I have seen the term "mobile" on stamps from other countries, but haven't determined what exactly that means.

Regards, Robert

Dear colleagues in Philately passion, I take advantage of this discussion and ask for your help since it is related to Greek stamps. In the last days I worked in arranging my Greek stamps, but I have a problem to identify these 2 pieces. Can you help me? Thank you :)

Can't find them in my Scotts either. I googled 'unissued greek stamps' and came up with this website. Appear to be essays. Certainly a very crude printing.
Sorry not much more info, but it may help you in the start of your search.

http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/2276..._Stamps.html

Thank you.. I still didn't manage to find much but it is a start :) any other help is highly appreciated :)

Hi Sobo,

These two stamps show Eleftherios Venizelos who was a leading Greek politician of the early part of the 20th century.

The other four stamps shown in James's link show Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, Eleftherios Venizelos and General Panagiotis Danglis.

These three formed the leading triumvirate of the "Provisional Government of National Defence", a separate government in Thessaloniki (Salonica) formed in opposition to the government in Athens.

There is no evidence that they were ever issued in any postal sense. I would assume they are either propaganda labels or simply bogus stamps to make money from collectors.

The Vlastos catalogue describes these stamps as:

"Very bad quality. Bad perforation, sometimes missing. Probably an issue of fanatical supporters of the Government of Venizelos at Salonica in 1917."

Venizelos was an amazing character. By 1917 he had already been a politician and revolutionary in Crete, prime minister of Crete and twice prime minister of Greece. He went on to become prime minister of Greece many more times and was in and out of office in periods up to 1933.