The Stamps Of Thrace : On Album Pages.

Beginners collection.

On the Map, above the word "Thrace" near South Bulgaria, is Philippopolis,
named after Philip ll of Macedonia, Alexander the Great's Father.
(Now Plovdiv)







1913
Steiner Page 3 cropped.

All Postmarks, consider forged or CTO (Stamps have full gum)

1919
Steiner Page 5.



1919
Steiner Page 6.



1920
Steiner Page 7.



Thrace overprinted on Turkish Stamps.

https://goscf.com/t/50933&whichpage=19#449182

Rod, I like the coloured map. Is it one of yours? If so, which software package did you use to prepare it? If not, where did you "liberate" it from?

Hi Tim,
A Penguin.
CV Possibly $2 ? at a second hand book store.

I find it so very difficult, to handle European History, it is so involved.

Excellent stamps, maps and information Rod - this is one area I have not touched much (yet). Thanks for sharing.

Thank you Brian.
I am at sixes and sevens with this discipline.

Probably a very inexpensive set to complete, bar a few in the tens of dollars.

I share Jim's opinion with Thrace Stamps.....

Quote:
Out of the Blue
I feel a bit out of my element with Thrace, with the complicated history, and the possibility that the overprints might be counterfeit. In my view, the entire stamp inventory for Thrace is really specialist's territory. Buried somewhere in the philatelic literature is, no doubt, help for the collector if one is truly interested in the overprinted issues.

Jim's excellent treatment of Thrace.......

http://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.co...fThrace.html

Brian, I have a few duplicates,
email me if you want me to pass them on, rather than gather dust here.

Rod, thanks for the tip. I used to own this book as a teenager but I've clearly forgotten what it looked like! Off for a bit of pre-Christmas shopping, as I have some Baltic / Polish history to sort out.

Rod - Great presentation I haven't seen the 1913 overprints before.
Now - I guess we can expect something similar for Eastern Roumelia one of these days?

Great presentation, Rod. I don't think I've ever seen those stamps before.

I'm surprised Kirk,
they seem to pop up regularly for me, perhaps because I collect Bulgaria, and they are often found orphaned Back of book.




I wish! Blaamand. I have only 5 Eastern Rumelia stamps, 2 are forgeries.
That discipline is reserved for the wealthy.

Free gift from SCF Maguss

Overprint reads "Administration Western Thrace"
Other inscrip. Eastern and Western Thrace.

Serrate Roulette all Lithograph.
Sundry issues in Catalogue order (lots missing)