France
France
Type of Seal/Label
Centenary Exposition Label
Date
1949
General Info
During the war, Mazelin got the chance to participate in engraving non-postage labels for souvenir sheets issued during the annual Paris Philatelic Exhibition. Mazelin features on all three sheets, having engraved labels depicting the Notre-Dame of Paris, ‘Soirée a l’arsenal’, and a scene from Ravel’s opera Le Boléro. More stamp show work appeared in 1949, when he engraved a souvenir label depicting a lady with an umbrella looking at Pierre Gandon’s Marianne. This particular label was part of a publicity campaign celebrating the centenary of French stamps, a campaign which also saw that same Marianne being reissued in the national colours. The label was also a delicate pointer towards the friendship between the two engravers, because when Pierre Gandon had been blacklisted for a few months at the end of the war, he nevertheless kept on working, engraving a stamp portraying Sarah Bernhardt. Mazelin then signed the stamp with his name so that it could be issued.
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Germany
Germany
Type of Seal/Label
Fee Stamp
Date
1947
General Info
This is a Fee stamp. They are different from revenue stamps in that revenue stamps collected a tax, usually applied on a variable basis. Fee stamps were to collect a specific fee for a service, usually according to a specific fee schedule. Germany was very efficient in their collection of taxes and fees, and there is a series of catalogs, written by the late Martin Erler, called "Katalog de Stempelmarken Deutschland" (Catalogue of the Adhesive Revenue Stamps of Germany). It runs to over 30 volumes altogether. Volume X is entitled "Allgemeine Gemeindegbührenmarken" (General Municipal Fee Stamps). Section I (capital letter i) of the catalog is for General Fee stamps, and this one is listed as I180, from the series of c.1947. (The full set runs from 10 rpf to 10 RM) Many towns and even states issued their own Fee and Revenue stamps, with the name as part of the design. Other towns, especially smaller ones, used the general purpose ones. Some towns overprinted the town name on the stamps and some just used them without overprinting.
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Herm Island
Herm Island
Type of Seal/Label
Cinderella
Date
-
General Info
Herm (Guernésiais: Haerme, ultimately from Old Norse arms “arm”, due to the shape of the island, or Old French eremite “hermit”) is one of the Channel Islands and part of the Parish of St Peter Port in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. It is located in the English Channel, north-west of France and south of England. It is 2.183 kilometres (1.4 mi) long and under .873 kilometres (0.5 mi) wide; orientated north–south, with several stretches of sand along its northern coast. The much larger island of Guernsey lies to the west and Jersey to the south-east, and the smaller island of Jethou is just off the south-west coast. Herm was first discovered in the Mesolithic period, and the first settlers arrived in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Many tombs from that period remain today, the majority in the north of the island. The island was annexed to the Duchy of Normandy in 933, but returned to the English Crown with the division of Normandy in 1204. It was occupied by Germany in the Second World War and the scene of Operation Huckaback, but was largely bypassed. Herm is currently managed by Herm Island Ltd, formed by Starboard Settlement, who acquired Herm in 2008, following fears during the sale of the island that the 'identity' of the island was at threat. Herm's harbour is on its west coast. There are several buildings of note in the vicinity including the White House, St Tugual's Chapel, Fisherman's Cottage, "The Mermaid" pub and restaurant, and a small primary school with about eight children. During a busy summer season, up to 100,000 tourists visit the island, arriving by one of the catamaran ferries operated by the Trident Charter Company. Cars are banned from the island, as are bicycles; quad bikes and tractors used for staff and luggage transport respectively are allowed.
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Maluku Selatan
Maluku Selatan
Type of Seal/Label
Cinderella
Date
1953
General Info
Although the Republic of South Moluccas did not issue its own postage stamps, several stamps bearing the country's name can be found. They are so-called bogus stamps, which are private stamp issues and were not issued by any postal administration of the South Moluccas. There are three distinct bogus stamp issues of the Republic of South Moluccas: Overprints Stamp issues of the exile government in the Netherlands Stamps from the Österreichische Staatsdruckerei (Austrian National Print Office), which were ordered and sold by New York stamp dealer Henry Stolow. Overprints In 1950, 17 stamps of the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia were overprinted with "Republik Maluku Selatan". Many philatelists believe that the stamps could have been used locally. However, the majority assumes that they are stamp forgeries.
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Maluku Selatan
Type of Seal/Label
Cinderella
Date
1954
General Info
Although the Republic of South Moluccas did not issue its own postage stamps, several stamps bearing the country's name can be found. They are so-called bogus stamps, which are private stamp issues and were not issued by any postal administration of the South Moluccas. There are three distinct bogus stamp issues of the Republic of South Moluccas: Overprints Stamp issues of the exile government in the Netherlands Stamps from the Österreichische Staatsdruckerei (Austrian National Print Office), which were ordered and sold by New York stamp dealer Henry Stolow. Overprints In 1950, 17 stamps of the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia were overprinted with "Republik Maluku Selatan". Many philatelists believe that the stamps could have been used locally. However, the majority assumes that they are stamp forgeries.
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S.W.A
S.W.A
Type of Seal/Label
Charity
Date
1935-1938
General Info
November 1935 S.A.P. - Outrage over the Union Voortrekker issue being overprinted S.W.A. Voortrekker Stamps Overprinted Yet another attack is being made by the Government on the pockets of stamps collectors by the unnecessary and uncalled for overprinting of the Voortrekker stamps with the letters SWA. After the long time which has elapsed since the first issue in 1933 of these stamps it is certainly very strange that they should only now be made available for use in South West Africa, and it is doubtful whether a very large proportion of the residents in that territory have any desire or inclination to pay a 50 per cent, increase in postage rates in order to contribute towards the erection of a memorial to the memory of the Voortrekkers in which many of them cannot have any interest. The position probably is that the Government finds that these stamps have not been selling too well (one certainly very seldom sees them on correspondence particularly from the country districts) and has therefore considered that it is desirable that a fresh impetus should be given to their sale, especially to stamp collectors, by means of this overprint. It is unfortunately a fact that no amount of fulmination against this action on the part of the Government will prevent collectors from acquiring these stamps, but nevertheless it is greatly to be regretted that the Government has found it necessary to augment the funds for such a worthy object by such unworthy means.
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Spain
Spain
Type of Seal/Label
Charity Fund Label
Date
1930-1940
General Info
1930s Mutualidad de Correos. These were PO employees orphan charity fund labels. They were "voluntarily" used during 1910/1975 on some PO forms (parcels, giro, etc.) in addition to regular postage. And also "voluntarily" by PO communications that had, otherwise, franchise. Also, in emergency periods (civil war) in place of absent stamps.
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