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Manfred
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I don't know anything about this overprint, so I contacted Henry Chlanda. Like me he has never seen this before. Liberia is full of oddities, but unless a second example with the same overprint shows up it is probably impossible to decide if this is…
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In my own collection... 1. none of the forgeries of the first issue have gum, so I guess that's the rule rather than the exception. Anyone with a gummed forgery? 2. all the readable postmarks are faked Monrovia town cancels, sometimes misspelled …
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Here are the stamps I can offer: 179, 270 and 316 are NH, the rest is hinged (HR). 60 has a rusty perf. at the right side. Scott prices (for hinged) are: i) Scott 26 (1885 3c) - $2 ii) Scott 29 (1885 8c bluish gray) - $4 iv) Scott 44 (1892-96…
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The close connections between Germany and Liberia definitely date back to the beginnings of the Woermann Line in the 19th century. Back then it was simply a matter of opportunity: Liberia as an independent country had just begun to exist, and it off…
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A couple of months ago I was asked the same question, and first I would like to repeat here what I said then: "I used to collect (mint) amphibian and reptile topicals, and I got hooked because some Liberian stamps I needed where really hard to …
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I can't help but thinking that most prices are mainly based on tradition, occasionally adjusted for inflation so that they still look reasonable. I have no other explanation for the huge discrepancy between catalog values and real world prices today…
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This category is definitely active, although no one has made use of it so far. Regarding "filling gaps" I know exactly what you mean. Often enough one seems to be forced to buy the whole set again, because single stamps, especially the cheaper ones…
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This is Shoemaker No. 6. The type II designation in his book is clearly an error; no such envelope exists. Also, according to his cross reference listing sR No. 6 = Rogers No. 5, which is of type III. However, the (earliest known) date of issue give…
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A certain degree of variation is normal, but 8mm is not. However, all my large envelopes are around 229mm x 101mm, so I guess the sizes stated are simply wrong. I have updated the data on this site accordingly. Thanks, Manfred.
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All I know is that the three parts of the overprint were done in three separate runs. If a sheet would be put into the press upside down for one run and if the opposite margins were of very uneven size the resulting inverted (part-)overprint might b…
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Travis, I am positive that there is no such list. It would be very interesting to collect dates for all the stamps where only the year of issue is known (and even the year has been proven to be wrong in some cases!). I will add a field to my stamp …
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Here are some shades of O144: first stamp center in plain gray, frame in deep orange; second stamp center in some bluish (steel blue) gray, frame in light orange; third stamp on buff paper with center as first stamp, but frame in yellow. According t…
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Hello Travis, good to have you back! I had almost given up hope... ;-) Here are two more of my O149 errors: It looks like O149 exists with two different shades of blue.
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Here is a O149 corner block of six with part O149b, front and back. It should be obvious what happened - pretty much the same as with Albert's block. This one was washed (no gum), probably to help removing the wrinkles. That's why the "O S" overprin…
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And another one, O78:
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The perforation errors in this issue are probably too numerous to list them all. Over time I have seen quite a number of them offered on eBay and elsewhere. But, this is the first time I see one of these errors postally used. The strip below is from…
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The Varaschini collection is really worth checking out more than once. It is only now that I saw the philatelic cover (lacking O72) on page 355 of the PDF, and Varaschini's notes. It looks like my "discovery" has been made before. Here is Varaschini…
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The collection is sold.
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My point was that the producer of the Woermann envelope and those used for the 1914 issue, at least some of them, was the same, and most likely German. This is important because the 1914 envelopes are not known from other correspondence sent from Li…
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I assume your question refers to the stamps that were systematically postmarked and made available to collectors loose or on piece in 1914? I don't have any with a later date, and none on cover (only two on piece), but I just made an interesting obs…
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I have prepared a page showing the 66A and SG 175 from the Lockard and Fosdyke Ray collections, plus my own and Marty's copies: http://philib.org/temp/ORDINARY/view.php If you send me your scans I will upload them there, too. Perpaps we find some ma…
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I have one copy. It has expert marks on the back, but I don't recognize them.