Switzerland : Back Of Book.

I notice swiss "postcard" stamps are now bob.
along with
postage due
pro juventute
league of nations
int labour office
int education office
world health org
world meteorological org
upu
united nations
int telecommunications
world intel property org
int olympic comittee

whew!

2 examples of upu

"hand reaching for and holding a rainbow"

Switzerland Revenues
Railway Stamps.
Multiple on piece.
Unknown.

A lot of the back of the book overprints for various agencies are being faked due to rarity, so look out for forgeries .

Good place to help with this item I bought last year at a stamp show. I believe it is a customs document, but not entirely sure. Any help with the stamps or document is appreciated.

I would love to add to my collection of Franchise stamps but they are getting harder to find.

1996
Frama Stamps "The Four Seasons"

Dummy Stamps
Switzerland
WIFAG

Press : IPP (SRR-3)

http://www.stampprinters.info/WIFAG.pdf

Rod, in my honest view, this item is an advertising cinderella from the PTT Printing Works, not BOB. But, I understand, that its meaning is diferent outside Europe.

Some info on Swiss Federal railway stamps:

http://www.swiss-stamps.org/Fondued...20Stamps.htm

Thank you Jill. That covers my piece well.




Hi Cursus,
yes, I agree with you. B.o.b. for me has become anything that is not main stream postal use.

Semi Postals
Air
Postage Due
Revenues
Flotsam and Jetsam.

All these things lie after 2017 postage stamps.
Well, they do in my Albums, and I must say are easy to find.

I take your point, hope you can cast a blind eye over my eccentricity.

The concept of "back-of-book" in some places -principally the Scott catalogue - is so wide that the back constitutes most of the book. In most (not all) of Europe, it means postage dues and officials, newspaper stamps etc. Not revenues or cinderellas, which don't sit in a mainstream catalogue. Air-mail and charity stamps lie in the main body of the book.

I agree with GeoffHa in that semi postals and airmail stamps ought to be considered as regular stamps. They are normally available at post offices and can be used by the public for regular use.


Peter

Catalogues can be all over the place on these things. Gibbons used to list Italian air-mail stamps separately. Why just those? And Belgian stamps separately. Why just those? That seems to have ended. Yvert separates air-mail. Maury lists them with the other issues. This avoids the silliness of Yvert's listing what were obviously air stamps in the main body of the book just because they lack the words "par avion".

I think instead of thinking about "back-of-the-book", "front-of-the-book", etc. - which varies depending on the particular catalog used - we should think about it in terms of the different "services" the stamps were used for. In that regard, airmail, semipostals, etc. clearing are not the same as the regular issues (which is why Scott places them at the back of the book )

So, those collecting airmail, semipostals, postal dues, etc. could be said to being collecting "by service" rather than collecting BoB, per se.

Could get complicated, though. GB has never issued air-mail stamps, because they're unnecessary, but plainly some denominations would have met an air-mail rate. France has issued air-mail stamps, but a few issues, whilst clearly for air-mail use, weren't marked as such.

Geoff.



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