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Posted 02/27/2015   4:28 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add walkabout to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I have about 3 pages of loose stamps that need sorting and, while going through the US 'Revenue' stamps, I came across this. No notation(s), no ID, nothing. Any ideas, thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

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Posted 02/27/2015   4:34 pm  Show Profile Check orstampman's eBay Listings Bookmark this reply Add orstampman to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Sometimes sheets of stamps have designs on the selvage outside the printed stamps on the sheet - this may be a sheet selvage design.
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Posted 02/27/2015   4:56 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add walkabout to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
orstampman - Thank you. Finally something to look up. I saw it there and thought 'what the heck ...'. Then I sat and thought about it for a while and got to thinking it might be something associated with the military - some destination designation or what not from WWII. Then got to thinking .... Figured I'd try this category. Thank you for the response.
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Posted 02/27/2015   6:27 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Petert4522 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
That looks a lot like a Dutch booklet "stamp". If a booklet had a certain amount of postage in it, like let's say 1 Euro ( or guilder ) and room on the sheetlet was left, a cross was printed on that position. The only crosses like it I have seen though were red on white, never the other way around! But it is possible that there are reversals!
I stick with the booklet "stamp" because of it's one imperforate side.

Peter
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Posted 02/27/2015   7:19 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add scotzm to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
As Peter has already mentioned, it is most likely from a booklet and would have looked something like this originally. Someone might have the identity of the country but as it is not attached to a "proper" stamp it cannot be said to be worth anything but it is interesting anyway.

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Posted 02/27/2015   8:01 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Richard Frajola to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Not from a booklet at all.

It is a space holder stamp from Austria 1858 issue 5kr red "Saint Andrews Cross" - identical to Lombardy Venetia 5 sold red also.
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Posted 02/27/2015   8:14 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wt1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Great information! As in this example (taken from the alphabetilately.org website):

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Edited by wt1 - 02/27/2015 8:15 pm
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Posted 02/27/2015   11:35 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add YeaPolska to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
They do have a value even as singles. Attached to stamps they are mucho rare. My ancient Gibbons Austria lists this as £25 with gum, yours is unfortunately not in the best condition but still worth keeping
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Posted 02/28/2015   01:05 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add walkabout to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
One and all - Thank you! Just now read about the cross - had to go out and troubleshoot a 'puter. One of the reasons I do like this forum. There is such a wealth of knowledge. I have no idea what will be done with it, but now I can tell them just what it is. Maybe even find something in red/orange and white. Again, thank you for the effort and information.
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