The A-B-C Classic Stamps Scan/Upload Contest/Game!

R - Roman States



Only scan I had...

S- Southern Rhodesia

Turkestan (bogus, but classic)

Uganda Typewriter Stamp (I must get one of these one day... or make one )

Victoria Colony

Veglia - or if you are Croatian, the delightfully unconsonantal Krk!

Bamra, I would love to get a Krk stmp pstlly usd, but they are so expensive.

Warsaw local, 1915




Remember, X is free, so we're looking for "Y" next...

Hold on... Xeimappa

The first X

Bee See, what's with the Uganda Typewriter stamp?

Rev. Miller made these in 1895, it is S.G. no. 3, not sure the Scott number.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Cowries

Tell me about it!

I do however have a postally used copy of the match of this from neighbouring Arbe/Rab. I got it three years ago from the most astute and philatelically knowledgeable dealer in the UK. I know this, because he told me several times whilst I was pulling stuff like this out of his stock book and asking how much he wanted for them. He told me I was wasting my time buying this kind of stuff, which nobody wants, rather than the GB Certain Money-spinner bargains he was trying to sell me, but if I absolutely insisted on wasting my money, I could have them for 20p each.

As I walked out of the door with the used Arbe, two mint Arbe large overprints, five out of the six Veglia small overprint values, and a small selection of the general Carnaro issues, I think he was still telling me how astute and knowledgeable he was, but I couldn't hear him very well over the jingling sound in my pocket from the considerable change from my £5 note.

Or would be if it weren't in fact a Ch!

Xeimappa is in Scott under Epirus, 1914 Chimarra issue. This thread gives a lot of latitude, but I'm choking just a bit on the "x". Full marks for creativity, though.

Wait till I toss in a classic Tuvalu next time round