Belgium Cob E44 Felpost -Cancelled

I think this is an interesting issue, where these were issued, but not for postal use, in 1944. COB/OPB does not even list catalogue values for cancelled COB44-48. My question is how did this get cancelled? Did someone in a Feldpost do it? Anybody see this before? K

I am not an expert in this field, but, there are a lot of fakes with a lot of the German specialized occupation issues and there might be a good chance that this too is a fake. (?)

Chimo

Bujutsu

I have the set of fake sheets for comparison, and they are nothing like this. This is definitely old, and other mint ones cut from sheets are similar to this in appearance. K

Interesting Kenneth.

Maybe you do have the genuine article after all. You don't see many legitimate items like these.

Thanks for sharing.

Chimo

Bujutsu

I was just looking over prior posts and found a 5/28 or 5/29/13 post by Postmaster on Legions and a link to Germanstamps.net. I think my stamp/label, whatever, above, was a part of a Michel XV B Sheet, which someone "cancelled," before cutting this entity off, thereby leaving only half a cancel on it. These sheets were sold to support the occupying legion, and never meant to be used for postage, which is why I posted this in the first place. K

The "cancel" looks an awful lot like a censor marking, not a real cancel. The label could have been used as decoration on an envelope and the censor just happened to put his mark partially on it.

Could be something like that. I just couldn't make sense of this thing. The only way these could go on envelopes would be with regular postage, since they have no postal value. My other thought is that the Belgium postal community loves to precancel souvenier sheets - however you spell that word-I always had trouble spelling it. Anyway, I've got a bunch of sheets from the 1930's that have cancellations of all sorts, and clearly never were posted. Well, this might be the mystery of the month..Thank you for your note..K

I have never seen this .The inscriptions on the stamp means : Feldpost : it is German and means all the correspondence for soldiers to and from the battlefields , in dutch it is : veldpost , + 10 fr : it is adding 10 francs , a lot of money in that time ( I think about 20 US cent , 1 dollar = 50 fr ), wapen SS : it is the traduction of Waffen SS . So I think it is a stamp used by the Flemish collaboration garrison fighting the Russians in the East , so the cancellation can be a real one .Albert