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German Colonial Provisionals

 
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Posted 04/06/2016   7:57 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add PostmasterGS to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
With the addition of Marshall Islands MiNr 3 I H from this thread, I'm coming close to having all of the German colonial provisionals in my collection (only missing Marshall Islands Minr 12 H).  So, it's as good a time as any to post links to them all for anyone who's interested in a little light reading on this little piece of philatelic history.

By way of background, provisional stamps were frowned upon by the German postal system, and the colonial postmasters were discouraged, and in many cases forbidden, to create provisional issues. They didn't let this stop them, however.

The most common method of creating provisional issues was to bisect existing issues. There aren't a lot of forgeries of these issues, but illegitimate uses are common. The postal clerks or postmasters would often create additional copies after the period of use, very often with the original canceller, to serve philatelic interests. For this reason, certification is recommend for most of theses issues.

Deutsch-Ostafrika / German East Africa
Königsberg / Möwe Provisionals (1916) -- GermanStamps.net or SCF Thread
Wuga Provisionals (March 1916) -- GermanStamps.net or SCF Thread

Deutsch-Südwestafrika / German Southwest Africa
Keetmanshoop Provisional (June-July 1900) -- GermanStamps.net

Cameroon / Kamerun
Valdivia Provisional (3 October 1898) -- GermanStamps.net or SCF Thread
Longji Provisional (19 May 1911) -- GermanStamps.net or SCF Thread

Carolines / Karolinen
1905 Ponape Provisional (20 April - 9 July 1905) -- GermanStamps.net
1910 Ponape Provisional Overprint (12 July 1910) -- GermanStamps.net or SCF Thread
1910 Ponape Provisional Bisect (12 July 1910) -- GermanStamps.net or SCF Thread

Marshalls / Marshall-Inseln
Feb-May 1900 Jaluit Provisional (February-May 1900) -- GermanStamps.net or SCF Thread
Dec 1900 Jaluit Provisionals (2-10 December 1900) -- GermanStamps.net
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You are so, so, so far ahead of me. (I'm a little jealous.)
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Posted 04/07/2016   05:35 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Tim H to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the information which, as always, is truly fascinating and makes my efforts look inadequate!

Amongst others countries, I collect South African Republic (ZAR), and these are riddled with philatelic bisects. I don't think there is a single cover that I've seen which has a genuine bisect, even with the receiving office back-stamp. Collectors had moved into this market much more than they had in German SWA.
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