Orange Free State Provisional Stamped Postcards

Here are two stamps that were part of provisional stamped postcards from Orange Free State.

Stamps were affixed to postcards and then overprinted with the seal shown to create temporary stamped postcards. The overprints are found in five different dies.


(I'm guessing this is Die 1.)

Here is a used example that appears to have been postmarked "Heilbron" in 1898.



Unfortunately, it has a pretty significant crease.

I don't have any examples of the complete cards yet. If you have one, feel free to add it.

Great idea for a thread!

If you haven't seen the dies described before, the main differences are whether the shield is draped in flags (and none of these has the flags), how many cows are standing up or sitting down, and whether the tip of the shield is broken or not.

SG refers to them as dies (a) to (e). They're not listed in my old 2006 Scott Classic but may have been added since.

Here are my two, another ½d stamp and a 1½d surcharge on a 2d stamp:

The mention of some cows standing, and some not, jogged my memory. I'd forgotten that I'd read about those before. Thanks.

Here are the dies...



from the Orange Free State Study Circle, at:

http://www.orangefreestatephilately...tionery.aspx

That is as good as the image gets. The combination of general pictures with the written description in SG is useful, perhaps.

As of 2008, Scott doesn't treat these in the Classic.

Thanks very much for the link.

There's lots of useful information there but it's so disappointing that someone has taken the trouble to show each die but in such low resolution that I can't see how many cows there are or what they're doing!