Maluku Selatan Stamps-Have A Question

What I understand from the Wikipedia information is that most of these "stamps" were ordered by a stampdealer in order to be sold to collectors. It sounds plausible to me because I think it is very unlikely that a wannabe country in the third world needs 150 different stamps in huge quantities. Stamps that, very conveniently also have nice thematic designs...

According to info I found here: http://www.economy-point.org/m/malu...-stamps.html there are at least two groups of stamps from Maluku Selatan. Those ordered by the government in exile, and those ordered by the New York stampdealer Stolow.

Larry...how dare you steal my picture I believe that stamp
is now a part of T-360's collection

Bob, yes I remember. You wouldn't happen to have another
since you lived so close by? (If I had one I wouldn't have
to steal your photo!)

I was breaking down a collection last weekend that was housed in a Minkus Aristocrat album. Believe it or not, Minkus had a section for South Moluccas.


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Winnipegger:

I'm not surprised. The Minkus International albums were always a more detailed album than Scott's International albums. That said, I've seen some Minkus year supplements, which had spaces for all kinds of stamps from the sand dunes. The idea behind that, was those CTO'd stamps were cheap and plentiful and many children could afford those colourful stamps and put them in their album.

This gave Minkus a valid reason for people to keep buying their supplements, you could fill up a few pages!

I wonder if the same thinking applied to the pages you saw for the South Moluccas?

David the Ottawan

As a Cinderella collector, I have these colourful thematics in my Fantasy/Bogus album.

Londonbus1.....after all, that's what they are.

Phil:

When you're in Ottawa, again, ask Nani about her father in the war of Independence. I think she said he got jailed by the Dutch for fighting back. Too bad he died a few years ago... I'd have loved to hear about his days in the Indonesian Revolutionary Army.

David

Album makers often had contracts with foreign countries to supply them with CTO's.......thus they pictured the ones they carried to encourage collectors to fill albums by buying stamps from them. Many countries had contracts with more than one, but some had exclusive contracts. Compare Harris & Minkus foreign albums from the 50's & 60's and it becomes fairly obvious.

I haven't been on lately, so was happily surprised at the input from all of you. Even though they may not be considered stamps, I still will be buying them as I believe they are interesting. I will also be putting the history of the stamps with them in the album, thanks to all of you!

rockin

Line perfed triangulars:

I'm not sure if it's been brought out in the links in previous posts, but the Republik Maluku Selatan rebels in Maluku Selatan/South Moluccas and the Permesta rebels in nearly Sulawesi Utara/Northern Celebes were being heavily supported by the CIA. When I was travelling on business through the backblocks of Sulawesi Utara in the 1970s, my guide was the son of the former (Muslim) Sultan of the western end of the province, and a pardoned former rebel. He pointed out to me the lake on which the CIA flying boats used to come in regularly with supplies.

I wasn't able to follow up on any philatelic ramifications of this, because talk of the old rebel days was not what my employer wanted to hear. We wanted to talk strictly about cement plants only - nothing contentious, please.

Ooh, hexagonal shapes.

Do you think those can be had with 6 triangles in the shape of a hexagon Rod?

Nice history here.

I'd like to break a sheet for ya, Puzz
but it would be breaking the rules of philately. :)
Yep, would make a super hex, only sheet I have ever seen though.

Tony, you should write a book.
Talk about cement? you should have taken him to the
Pyramids.
Crack that recipe and it would be the best advance for man
since the printing press.

Couldnt the Maluku stamps be considered part of history because of the fact that had the rebels won, those stamps would have been used by the citizens? I wonder what the outcome of Indonesia would have been had the rebels won. Makes you think, Doesn't it?

William, there were local rebellions going on all over Indonesia at the time. There was a fundamentalist Islamic revolt (sound familiar?) in West Java, which led to fighting around the southern reaches of Jakarta at one point in the 1950s. None of them were ultimately successful, probably because the majority of Indonesians, even in the affected areas, still believed in 'Indonesia', in some form or other. Not utterly unlike the situation in the US after your Civil War.