Czechoslovakia : On Steiner Pages.

Hi Rod

If you can send me an email with images on of mystery stamps I'll forward it to my bro in law who translates Czech into English and lives in Brno. If that would be easier. Though there are a couple of Czech guys regularly posting on this forum I know, Florian is one.

Crispin

Sounds great Crispin,
I'll send 10 or so through, see how it goes.
(I don't like to presume on members here, to do my work)

Hi Rod,

I can't help with any references for Czechoslovak cinderellas but I do have John Barefoot's Czechoslovakia Revenues catalogue from 2001 if you need any information from there.

I have a small number of British and American labels in support of Czechoslovakia from WW2 and a little later. I'll try and post these here.

Hi Nigel,
I have the grand total of just 4 revenues.

(The blue on the left looks like Pelure paper, or Goldbeater's skin )
The middle is cream cardstock.

Ephemera
Poster Stamp / Label. Lovely example of Czech applied arts.

Hi Rod,

I have about 15 mostly different Czech revenues and they are on all in the same design of the first three you've shown.

One of them is the light green freight supplementary tax in your catalogue scan.

The others are general revenues with stamps of this design first issued in 1919 and used until 1938. There are various papers and shades.

This series was replaced in 1938 by one of 23 values in the design of your brown 5Kc stamp.

I believe your imperf stamp is a cut-out from a parcel despatch
card (or something similar).

There's a tiny picture of it on a card in Higgins and Gage along with a comment that cards in this design had been listed in error as they had an imprinted revenue stamp(!)

Unfortunately the detailed listing for four cards like this has been deleted in my H&G edition.

Thanks Nigel.

Back of Book (B.o.b.)
Newspaper Stamps.
Beautifully designed by Alfons Mucha.
The Common Kestrel seen from below, with the Value tablets in the shape of the Linden Leaf, the Linden Tree (considered sacred) the Czech national emblem.

1918 Steiner Page 38.



1918 Personal Page 38A.

Unknown Cinderella.
Unsure if it is Czech.
Looks like a Czech Christmas seal, (falling star) but the text seems to point to a Bohemian Beer ? "Bohumir Vyskovsky"

1920 Air Post. Steiner Page 30.
From my untrained eye, suggest.
Stamp 1 is a forged Overprint (no line above aviator's head)
Stamp 2 & 3 genuine.

Back of Book (B.o.b.)
1927 Postage Dues Steiner Page 27.
(another case of common low value, hard to find)



1971 Postage Dues Steiner Page 47.



1930 Air Post. Steiner Page 31.

1946 Air Post Steiner Page 67.



1946 Air Post Personal page 67A.

I've used this site with some success ... simply take a picture and load the pic .. the site will translate

https://translate.yandex.com/

CH,
Are you sure a pic ?
Looked like a type a word and translate site to me.
Cannot see where to load a picture.

Found it.
Not perfect, but I must say, I find that to be rather amazing ....
(I am presuming this to be an Agricultural Exhibition / Fair)


Result

I believe the bottom line reads something like:

"33% discount on fare on Czechoslovak state railways"