Equatorial Guinea : On Album Pages.

Thanks Eli,
I had not come across, "The consequences of war" by Rubens, prior.
A hugely evocative painting,
No less due to our current world situation.

Hello.
I hadn't seen this before, I wasn't on the forum in 2017.
The flowers in the first message are from two different series, look at the facial values.
I collect Equatorial Guinea, stamps and Cinderellas.
The Cinderellas series are usually 7 stamps and 2 blocks and in the soccer series 9 stamps and 2 or more blocks, apart from the golden blocks which do not exist for all the series.
Regards.

Hi Roberto



Wow! that is one HUGE challenge !
Good Luck.

Do not believe, I am missing 191 cinderellas and 24 stamps.
I left it in 2021 because E.G. did not order the stamps to the Spanish national currency and stamp factory

These are the 24 stamps that I am missing.

Robert, I personally will not call these stamps Cinderella since they are legitimate issues. I think the correct definition of them will be Wallpaper stamps (although it is not an official philatelic definition).

Here is a set from my Monkey stamp collection:

Hello.
Quite contrary to the millionaire issues of 72-79 with print cancellation, the series made by the FNMT of Spain, like the last one from 2006, is 55,000.
Equatorial Guinea has around a million and a half people and in 2006 the FNMT made 15 stamps and one block, all at 55,000 per issue. 880,000 stamps for a year for 1.5 million people, I don't think it's considered wallpaper. There is no other type of postage than the one made by the FNMT. GE is not the Pitcairn Islands.
Regards,

Roberto,

I think I was misunderstood, probably because my English. I meant: why do you call these stamps, Cinderella stamps?

Take a good look at your monkeys. The postmark is printer's. Is that a legitimate issue?

What do you mean by that Roberto?

Opinion:
If the postmark was printed as part of the stamps design = Cinderella
(eg Some Australian issues)
If the postmarks were handstruck over the printed stamps = CTO Cancelled to Order.

"Wallpaper" is a derogatory term, for those whom use it, well then they can also include the British Penny Black.

The Penny Black was wallpaper.

It was in a literal sense, in that it wasn't unknown for Victorians to aspire to wallpaper a room with used copies. In the sense of dross issued for no postal purpose and not even sold in the purported country (if such it were, in many cases) of issue, it wasn't.

Rod222, the few inhabitants of the Pitcairn Islands live on stamps.

Printed postmark makes the stamp CTO (Cancelled to Order) as Rod mentioned. CTO doesn't mean the stamp is illegitimate.

IMO, Cinderella stamps are (official) labels, look like postage stamps, but are not. Hence, the Equatorial Guinea stamps, like the monkeys, are CTO but not Cinderella.

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I agree with Roberto. Contrary to a stamp that is issued and cancelled, a stamp with the cancel printed has not been cancelled as it never was a stamp that could be used. There was nothing to cancel to start with.

It can be argued that most - not all - CTO stamps have never been intended to serve a postal use. At least they could have been used as postage stamp until the cancellation mark was applied, cancelling the stamp even before the release date.

There have been plenty philatelic bureaus that sold legitimate mint stamps and made it possible to order the stamp with a cancellation applied on order, i.e., truly CTO.




Those printed with the cancellation applied look like postage stamps. Since they have always been invalidated by the cancel, they are not.




Since they never were conceived to be used as postage stamps, they are, by your own definition, cinderellas.

There is a good argument to call most CTOs cinderellas, as the 'order' was that of the post office and not the collector, but I do not see how the argument works the other way.