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The Raj of Sarawak was established in 1841, when the Sultan of Brunei rewarded the English adventurer James Brooke with an hereditary fiefdom for services rendered. The Brooke family ruled Sarawak with progressive benevolence for about a century, but the last "White Rajah", Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, controversially ceded Sarawak to the British Empire in 1946. Since 1963, Sarawak has been politically and philatelically part of Malaysia. The stamp illustrated demonstrates the transition of 1946. It depicts Rajah Sir Charles Vyner Brooke and is overprinted with the Royal Cypher of King George VI of the UK.  |
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Thank you, pjr, for sharing   Quote: In 1898 Crete obtained autonomy under Ottoman suzerainty, but was nevertheless garrisoned by an international military force from Britain, France, Italy and Russia. The first stamps of the independent postal service in Crete were issued on 1 March 1900. They featured images of Hermes, Hera, King Minos, Talos and a portrait of Prince George, who was the high commissioner of the island.  In February 1905, the second series was released. The series depicted Artemis, Britomartis, infant Cydon suckling a female Cretan hound, Triton, Ariadne, as well as the ruins of the Palace of Knossos and the Arcadia Monastery against the backdrop of Mount Ida.  In September 1908, after the Cretan deputies unilaterally declared union with Greece, the stamps of the previous issues were overprinted "HELLAS" ("Greece").    |
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The British colonies of Rhodesia and Nyasaland became the independent states of Zambia and Malawi in 1964. Southern Rhodesia was the state of Rhodesia between 1965 and 1980 and finally is now Zimbabwe.  |
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The "Rhodesia" in R & N incorporated both Northern and Southern Rhodesia, not just the later Zambia. |
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Many thanks, lithograving!   Quote: Aegean Islands - Autonomous Administration Issue, 1912
Italy occupied the Dodecanese Islands in April 1912 after the Italo-Turkish War. Before the official issues of the Italian Government, a 'People's Commission' on the island of Calino decided to issues postage stamps for use on all the islands. A set of three Helios stamps was issued. The postmaster was called P Nicolaides, and the printing house was Aspiotis Brothers. Helios, the personification of the Sun, 1912  To celebrate the unification of the Dodecanese Islands with Greece, a long set was issued by Greece in several parts during 1947-1950. Three of the stamps show former stamps issued in 1912 for use in the Aegean Islands depicting Helios (only the values were changed to the actual values)   |
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The Leeward Islands were a loosely organised British colony from 1671 to 1958. At various times the constituent territories issued their own stamps (Antigua, St Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, the Virgin Islands and Dominica), but federal stamps for the whole colony were also issued from 1890 onwards. All these stamps were of the De La Rue "key type" design. In 1958 the colony was dissolved, and most of its constituent territories are now independent countries. Here's a stamp of 1949, cancelled in Plymouth, Montserrat - a place which no longer has a post office, because the whole town was buried by volcanic eruptions in the 1990s.  |
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The Kingdom of Württemberg started issuing stamps in 1851. Below is the 9 Kreuzer Scott 5  In 1871 Württemberg joined the German Empire but was permitted to print and issue it's own regular postage stamps until 1902 after which only Reich stamps could be used. Official stamps for internal use in Württemberg were still available but they also lost their validity after July 31 1925 Below are 3 from the last set of 5 Official stamps issued on December 1923. Württemberg Scott O89-91  But this was not the end of Württemberg stamps. At the end of WWII the southern part of Württemberg ended up in the French Occupation Zone and the French issued stamps for what they called Württemberg-Hohenzollern. This lasted until 1949. Scott 8NB5 -8NB6   Stamps of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) were sold in Württemberg-Hohenzollern as of September 19 1949 and all previous stamps from W-H were no longer valid after March 31 1950. |
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Quote: The postal history of Northern Epirus, a region in the western Balkans, in southern modern Albania, comprises two periods; 1912–1916 and 1940-41. Northern Epirus was under Greek administration during the First Balkan War (1912–1913), but it was then awarded to the newly founded Albanian state by the Florence Protocol (1913). During this period, Greek stamps were used. Greece withdrew from the region in early 1914. The people of Epirus were unwilling to be part of Albania, though, and launched a revolution. Under a provisional government, the independent Northern Epirus was formed in February 1914 and it eventually managed to gain full autonomy under nominal Albanian sovereignty, according to the Protocol of Corfu (May 1914). Northern Epirus operated its own postal service and issued postage stamps, both official and unofficial, during that year. I don't have official stamps of N. Epirus, only one unofficial set issued 1914. It consists of 15 stamps produced in Moschopolis (Now Voskopoje in Albania) for publicity and propaganda purposes. It is regarded as Cinderella stamps by most collectors though cancelled specimens and examples of these stamps on covers exist. The set was issued in the very brief period (24 June-27 October 1914) that the town of Moschopolis was under the control of the troops of Pavlos Gyparis, a rather notorious Greek army officer who was previously head of the guard of Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos. Gyparis took control of the area around the town briefly after the collapse of the Autonomous Epirus administration. The set contains six stamps show different old Greek coins with mythological figures and 9 identical stamps with the coat of arms of Epirus.   |
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Quote: The Provisional Government of National Defence, also known as the State of Thessaloniki, was a parallel administration, set up in the city of Thessaloniki by former Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos and his supporters during World War I, in opposition and rivalry to the official royal government in Athens. A set of stamps** (?) for the State of Thessaloniki was issued in 1916 shows Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Greek national liberation movement, together with Pavlos Kountouriotis and Panagiotis Danglis, called "The Triumvirate", the leaders of the State of Thessaloniki.   *Note: Many sites and online sellers describe these stamps as Cinderella propaganda labels. I don't know whether they used for postage. Appreciate any further information. |
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Quote: Attempts to create German-Austria under these auspices were ultimately unsuccessful, especially since union with Germany was forbidden in the Treaty of Versailles, and the new state of the First Austrian Republic was created in 1920. Interestingly though stamps inscribed Deutschösterreich were still issued as late as October 1921 and were valid until July 31 1922.The post card below was cancelled on August 19 1921 at Schruns.  The first Austrian stamps inscribed Österreich were issued January 1922 ,which were the Dachauer designs.  |
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I see that I have more unofficial sets from Epirus in my Mythology collection. - Nike of Paionios statue, 1914  Flag of Epirus with the double headed eagle in the center, 1914.  |
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Quote: The Independent State of Croatia (Serbo-Croatian: Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska, NDH; German: Unabhängiger Staat Kroatien; Italian: Stato indipendente di Croazia) was a World War II-era puppet state of the axis powers.
It was established in parts of occupied Yugoslavia on 10 April 1941, after the invasion by the Axis powers. Its territory consisted of most of modern-day Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as some parts of modern-day Serbia and Slovenia. Semi postal stamps aimed to collect charity for the State Labour Service, issued on August 20, 1944.   |
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The Croatian stamps shown in the previous post were engraved by the master engraver Karl Seizinger and printed at the State Printer in Vienna. Seizinger also engraved the souvenir sheet shown below. Croatia Scott B40 1943   The stamp on this SS has the S in the shield variety. Quote is from the Stamp Engraver blog https://stampengravers.blogspot.com...izinger.htmlQuote: The stamp on the miniature sheet has the same secret trademark, in position 5 of a printing sheet of six. However, on the miniature sheets it can be found on the sign hanging to the left of the door of the house on the right. |
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Saar Quote: As a border region contested between France and Germany, the Saar has a somewhat complicated philatelic history. There are three periods in Saar postal history:
- 1920-1934 - League of Nations - After World War I the Territory of the Saar Basin was to be administered by the League of Nations for a period of 15 years. In the absence of an existing nation to take over mail delivery, the League established its own postal administration. Stamp inscriptions "Sarre" and later "Saargebiet".
- 1947-1956 - French protectorate - After World War II, Saar was one of the occupied areas to come under the administration of France. The inscription on the stamps is "Saar".
- 1957-1959 - German administration - Inscriptions on the stamps are: "Saarland" and "Deutsche Bundespost" I have stamps only from the period of French Protectorate (1947-1956). All were designed and engraved by French artists, but show German motifs (like German art).    ** During 1935-1945 Saar was under Reich control and no stamps were issued for the region. I appreciate if other members could show us stamps from the first and third periods. |
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