Banned Stamps

Wow. Nice one plateflaw.

When I over spend on stamps, which is more common than I like to admit. All incoming stamps are banned stamps. I have stamps all over the dinning room at the minuet but no talk of banned stamps. At least my wife has not banned the stamp collector, just the stamps at times.

My echo!

Only a couple more months darling and you can have your dinning room back.

It is the silence that worries me when I say this and it is cold outside this time of year! Maybe I need to buy more chocolate!

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One wonders if the Iranian Post Office had an issue, post-1979, with domestic mail franked with stamps bearing the image of The Shah.

Ditto the Bolsheviks post-1917, The Communist Party of Cuba post-1959, the Communist Party of Vietnam post-1975, et al.

Q/ Did they issue new stamps, and then allow citizens to turn-in their old stamps for new?

Even if rejected or postage due covers are rare to the point of vanishing, there might be copies of public notices.

Q/ Did USPoD publish a notice when US stamps were demonetized in 1861?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...tisation.jpg ... New Zealand Post Office demonetization notice of 1935

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

I seem to recall that, after King Farouk sailed away from Egypt, stamps bearing his image were overprinted with bars, but that those who owned the existing, unoverprinted stamps could exchange them (for cash or replacements?) at post offices.

"The Communist Party of Cuba" didn't take power in 1959, my boy.

I recall recently seeing a cover where a Nazi era post office would not accept a stamp with the image of former president Ebert, even though it was only a few years old.

To add to revcollector's point, the Michel Deutschland-Spezial catalog shows that the 2 designs of the pre-nazi definitive series (Ebert and Hindenburg) were treated differently. The Ebert designs were valid for postage only until June 30, 1934, while the Hindenburg stamps were valid until December 31, 1935.

John Hotchner wrote a series of articles for Linn's a couple years back explaining the Cold War implications of the U.S. series of stamps "Champions of Liberty."

These were a direct dig at the Eastern Block and USSR. When mail was posted to one of these countries, the stamp was either completely obliterated or returned to sender as unacceptable.

I thought it was a neat subliminal way of pointing out the problems with the various communist regimes.

Thanks, I didn't know they both had specific ending dates.

Stampman2002:

I believe the Champions of Liberty series in Linn's that you are referring to was actually authored by Ken Lawrence in 2012.

My Index show it was published in five parts, in the issues for Aug 20, Sept 19, Oct 15, Nov 26, and Dec 17.

Mike