New Republic Stamps , My Collection

Album pages that most never seen . I wanted to leave these stamps on the original pages so that their origin would not be question .

These were purchased by me in 1993 from Shreves Stamp Auctions ,they are from Bill Gross fabulous British Colonies Collection . The last 25 years they are in my ever expanding Scott Internationals .

I have not seen any of these stamps before. Thanks for posting.

Don

Nice collection.
Thanks for sharing.

As a fairly advanced WW classical era collector, I have never seen this many New Republic stamps in one place. Bravo!

Floortrader, these are really nice. Decent New Republic stamps are not often seen in quantity, and are usually in quite poor condition, either foxed or badly thinned. Yours look pretty top-notch. Well done!

Here's a few that you may have, and a few that you don't have yet. There's a bit of a lack of information on some of the later ones, but where apparent duplicates are seen, they include inverted embossing or missing embossing. There's a few used ones at the end, and a cinderella Boer War stamp.

Sorry I haven't had time to write them up properly yet. Retirement is just too darned busy

Truly impressive!

Is this accurate.

http://stampforgeries.com/forged-st...ew-republic/

redwoodrandy,
The slant on the first E of REPUBLIEK is found on the genuine stamp, however I think that it looks a little more pronounced than the image in the link you give. Genuine stamps also have a full-stop after AFRIKA.
However I don't know one way or the other about the bevelled lower branch of the second E in REPULIEK.

Clive

Clive, the "serif" on the first E of REPUBLIEK is a pretty much cast-iron way of telling forgeries from genuine stamps. Most, but not all, forgeries have the stop missing after AFRIKA, so this isn't definitive in my experience. Another good give-away if you have other genuine stamps for comparison is to look at the overall design. If it's too crisp and neat then it's highly likely to be a forgery.

Thanks Tim,
What outstanding collections both you and floortrader have.

I have always been fascinated by the New Republic stamps. "Transvaal Philately" by Maj. Ian B Mathews has a very interesting chapter on these. He also refers to your "cinderella Boer War stamp", these were issued in two designs in various colours and denominations but otherwise remain a mystery.
Clive

Thanks Clivel , thanks to the many who gave positive remarks . I hope to show more of the stuff that I been working .

I just purchased some extra Spanish Civil War Cinderella stuff to add to material I had for years and trying to fiqure out how to lay it out ,once I am happy with a method it should be a neat addition to the chat board .

floortrader and Tim - that's some truly impressive collections. I have never seen anything remotely close before, did not even know about the tete-beche pairs. Thanks for sharing, most inspiring