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Using stamp smarter, APS stamp identifier.....no luck - thanks for your help

Rene

Russian Savings stamp
https://www.catawiki.com/catalog/st...ia-1918-1923

http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Savings_stamp
Don

Thanks Don
Cannot find it in my Scott Cat Vol 5 but there is an overprint A19, Scott 284 (offices of Turkish Empire)

As your article mentions, it is a kind of Cinderella stamp !

Cinderella
A stamplike label that is not a postage stamp. Cinderellas include seals and bogus issues, as well as revenue stamps, local post issues and other similar items (ref: Glossary SCF)

No, I don't think that it fits a definition of a cinderella.

Russian pre-revolutionary savings stamps were used on special postcards and are listed and valued by Michel catalog in a special BOB section for Russia. They are also listed in Russian catalogs (Solovyev, Zagorsky, etc.). Russian philatelists regard them as collectible postage stamps, on par with dues, registered postage stamps, German Embassy in Russia stamps, etc. They are part of any serious collection of the pre-Soviet Russian stamps.

If you are reluctant to use Russian catalogs because of the labguage barrier, get a new or used copy of Michel Russland Spezial catalog, it contains tons of valuable information, and is written in easy-to-understand German; even if you don't read German, more difficult terms can be quickly translated using Google.

These also have a full listing in the SG catalogue, SG 180-182, where they are described as postal savings bank stamps authorised for postage.

I'm sure Revenues are not considered to be Cinderellas,
maybe Don or Kirk can fix the glossary.

nigelc

pardon my French but what is a SG catalogue ? Thanks

Hi Renden,

By "SG" I meant the Stanley Gibbons catalogues, in this case their Russia catalogue.

Ya Ya Ya ! I should have known, nigelc.. - Thanks ! So it is SG 182 ? for the 10 kon... and what about valuation for MNH ? Just to add in the inventory (EzStamp). Thanks !

nigelc

could you answer my last post.......SG 180 - 181 -182 ? and its valuation for the 10 kon.....Thanks !
Rene

Hi Rene!
According to https://www.stampworld.com/en/stamp...18465&page=2
your stamp is worth more used than MNH.

Yes, Ciletaliph........this morning saw that on stampworld.com. I would like the SG# and its valuation for inventory purpose.
Thanks for responding !