Bermuda Stamps : On Album Pages.

Quite peculiar! At first glance it looks like a totally different design. Similar for the value tablet - the inner frameline seems to be more or less completely missing.
Under-inking?

Possibly Jon, I do not have duplicates to compare, but you are probably correct. I always suspect hot water to be a suspect, also.

Sc#8 1882 6d Violet Queen Victoria (issued 1903) CV : $17-$28
Lightly hinged.

WOW - now that's a beauty - exceptionally crisp, good perfs, fresh color and about perfect centering, like it was picked up at the post office yesterday

That's what I thought too.
Purchased from Canada for $3, a subsidiary lot, when I was buying some Souvenir sheets.

This is more in keeping with a 150 year old stamp.

Sc# 1 1865 1d qv Rose Red P14 faded and with a few tears. Wmk 1

(Imperf CV $30,000)

Sc#26 1 farthing. (4 farthings = 1 penny)

For franking Newspapers.




Catalogue
Bermuda registration Labels.

Bermuda (Somers Islands)

Rod
Your immense knowledge of our WW stamp world makes it an immense knowledge for our members. Knowledge X 2

Thank You
Rene

Thank you for your kind words Rene, very encouraging.
I assure you I am learning as I go along.
I could not recall all this information without a computer, and a good library.

It's nice to know others get a bang out of learning about new issuing entities.

Don't forget about our member JKblue, I always pop over to Jim's blog
when I want an overview on a country, and a pricing structure.

The world index is down the LHS

http://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com.au/

1920
Steiner Page 5.



1968
Steiner Page 14.



1976
Steiner Page 9.

1981
Steiner Page lookalike. 16A



1918
War Tax (Unsure if this is Rose Red, or Carmine)
Steiner Page 9.


1986
Steiner Page 7

Surcharge 90c on $3 Why the Surcharge? Could have used Sc#505 and #506 of the same year.

CV : $9
Exist : Double Surcharge CV $110

Ebay.

2 x nice cotton reels, (circa CV : $150,000)
just sold for $40 Aust.
Vendor did not guarantee them.

Rod,
I saw that you mentioned you are a worldwide collector, but focus in more on Romania and Turkey? Two very interesting areas to collect! My wife is Turkish and we have traveled there many times over the years. Great fun to go to stamp shops there and buy.

Are you using Steiner pages for all of your collections? If so, that must be a lot of binders??

WOW - those Postmaster 'seals' (?) are great Rod - I've never seen those before.
Seems to me the Postmasters script/signature are more or less completely identical on the two seals - is that a bit funny?

Hi Chris,
Australia and Turkey are forever linked through the tragedy of war.
One of the few countries I still feel that boyish sense of wonder and intrigue.
If I visited, it may change that.
I must say I enjoy collecting Turkey, alas, I'll never quite conquer it, as I don't speak the language.

Yep, Steiner for every country, the only way a worldwide collector can possibly manage. ...and lots of binders, Romania and Australia max out at 8 Albums each. The smaller countries, I use the $4 Woolworths plastic binders. I don't have time to chase the smaller countries, I just mount whatever comes across my desk, mainly donations from collectors whom want to pass on their "not wanted"

I used to buy "suitcases" of stamps at auction, but those times have gone, lots like that are now fetching skywards of $300.
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Hi Jon,
I think they are called "Cotton Reel" stamps? (Not seals)
Postmaster (Perot) provisionals, one of the great rarities of world philately

I bid, wanted the forgeries as a curiosity on my album pages, but valued the Page at $8 US.
Guess: I don't think the forged Pmks were of that time?

$32 US was a real surprise. There was also some nice uncancelled items.

AskPhil :

Bermuda: island in the Atlantic off the coast of the U.S.; official name of postal administration: Bermuda Post Office
currency: 4 farthings = 1 penny, 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound, 100 cents = 1 dollar (1970) 1609: became
British colony, 1784-1812: Bermuda Gazette operated a domestic postal service, 1820-1859: external mails handled by London packet agent,
1848-54: Hamilton Postmaster William B. Perot produced stamps,
1865, Sept. 13: No.1, 1 penny rose red, stamps of Bermuda issued,
1918: first War Tax stamp issued,
1936: postal-fiscal stamp issued, used for revenue and postage,
1968, July 1: first stamps as a self-government.

Bermuda : Stanley Gibbons 1974

Rod - If I had come across them I would think likewise - very nice curiosities, even if reproduction - congratulations on your purchase. btw - I had no idea these provisionals were that ridiculously expensive



Well, some crazy WW collectors manage without Steiner as well