Czech Government In Exile But Can Not Find Reference

I think this might be a Czech government in exile issue but can not find any reference online, in Scott or here so perhaps someone knows what it is.




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Try looking under German Occupation stamps


Peter

Thanks, Peter, but it isn't in my Scott's 2015/16 German, Czechoslovakia or Slovakia under German Occupation anywhere....

The title is not correct. It is a local overprint.

If it is genuine, this is a local issue for Falknov (German: Falkenau), currently Sokolov. Thestamp, together with three others was issued by the revolutionary National Council and sold at the post office and used from 14 to 16 May.




https://philaforum.com/forum/thread...ufdruck-csr/

The post refers to a book by
Karel Holoubek: Tschechische Republik - Revolutionäre Ausgaben, Prag 1996

Thank you NSK!!

I thought from some of the others marked over cSR it might be a
Czech gov in exile issuance.

So, like the Maribor ones, it is a local overprint post-war.

Thank you very, very much for the info!

Falkenau ... interesting.

If I remember correctly, the bus from Prague Airport to Cheb called there, as did the one from Cheb to Karlovy Vary on the way back.

I have yet to make it to the Czech Republic - though it is high on my bucket list. Everything I have seen and heard makes it sound like a place I would want to travel around...

BTW I highly distrust *any* overprint unless it seriously depreciates the value of the stamp as below. That one I trust LOL.

I do find unusual stories that go with stamps interesting - especially if it is of historical interest.

No logic in thinking this, makes no sense. They couldn't be used postally anywhere during the war, and no one would risk their safety or lives to buy thousands of these stamps new to either deface locally or smuggle out and deface for propaganda purposes. It only makes sense that they'd be used after liberation, and by then the government is no longer "in exile."

Very high percentage this stamp is a fake,The Czech;s would have a printing firm design their own not take a Hitler Head and over print it.

Hi everyone...er NSK solved this one a few replies ago...

IF it is a legit overprint, it's a local issue just after the end of WWII for a place called Falkenau which is in our time called Solokov in the Czech Republic.

The odds are most likely that it is a fake overprint - though I'll never know but will keep it as an interesting oddity.

I refer you to NSK's great response above.