New Entries
To start this small post , I was thinking of presenting some King Leopold I stamps, but problems with the Wmk detection, led me to the necessity of presenting them in a future post... The truth is that I am not certain of the presence or not of a Wmk... there are 3 unperforated series with Wmk and 2 without it , but the designs in 4 of them are quite identical...without the presence of a clear Wmked stamp , I cannot extrapolate about the more or less difficulty of seeing the wmk without instruments, so I prefer not to present them...Last Wednesday I was minutes away from concluding the purchase of a modern Wmk detector, but my finances were advising me not to complete the deal... when I was reaching the final steps of the Internet process, the site crashed and I was unable to finish it... then I thought one more time and I decided that was not the right moment to buy this instrument... but I need it , badly..! I have hundreds of "small" definitive stamps (mainly from the Commonwealth..),waiting for a last look at the wmk's , and in most of the cases , it is keeping them to enter the collection...
This is the 1920 series dedicated to the Antwerp Olympic Games... the series was surcharged , each one of the stamps with 20c , in 1921...until that moment in time , this was the first incursion of ABNC in Belgium... previously , some influence of Waterlow took place with some famous pictorial series....the stamps are very well designed and engraved,beautiful frames also...
I want to highlight two small details , without any relevance (I'm sure...!), regarding the Surcharges... the 1st is related with the green 5c stamp, where a significant red dot appears at the right top of the stamp....the 2nd, a small break in the black line , presented in the red 10c stamp....
1921 "Surcharge on 1920 "Olympic Games, Antwerp"" (3) [Recess (ABNC)] Sc(140,....,142)
Here are two series where the charity efforts of Queen Astrid are well represented...in the top 3 stamps, the Royal Children are shown ( the middle brown stamp is damaged ) and in the others Queen Astrid appear holding Prince Baudouin( this last series was issued after her death)...
1935 "Queen Astrid's Appeal" (3) [Photo] Sc(B163,...,B165)
1937 "Queen Astrid Public Utility Fund" (8) [Photo] Sc(B189,...,B196)
here is a MS from the series where several views of the Koekelberg Basilica are shown...the tax presented in these stamps was for aiding the building (Completion) Fund...
1938 "Koekelberg Basilica" (7+MS) [Des/Engr (Jean De Bast)][Recess] Sc(B221)
A series from 1941, with several representations of different statues...the series is incomplete , with one stamp missing (1.50F+25c), and the MS is also presented with the stamp in it's perforated form...
One important fact in the stamps of this and posterior periods is that the Country Label could be written as "Belgie/Belgique" or "Belgique/Belgie" , sometimes the two different forms coexists in the same series,as we can see in this and in the next series..
1941 "Winter Relief Fund / Statues" (10+MS) [Photo] Sc(B305,...,B309)(B311,...B315)
Here it is another incomplete series, with the 10F+30F stamp missing... the series has also a MS presented above... if we pick our last words from the previous series, we can see that the country label changes from one form to the other ,from stamp to stamp... but it isn't the only thing that changes .. with it, the 'signatures' of the Designer and engraver also changes from left to right .. Another interesting fact is that the first 4 stamps (values less than 1F) are engraved and [Photo] printed, and the others are all [Recess] Printed...The MS seems to me ( and I have no data about it) like a [Photo] work...The portraits presented in these stamps are of famous Scientists...in the MS the Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella are represented...
1942 "Anti tuberculosis Fund / Famous Scientists" (9+MS) [Des (E. Renard)][Engr (M. Poortmaan)][Photo ( 10c to 60c)][[Recess (Others)]
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Now ,I have a last group of Brazilian Emperor D.Pedro II stamps to add to the collection...
in my last post with Brazil stamps, I have shown my first D. Pedro II stamps...I said I would be a dedicated collector of these stamps, so here are some more... from the first group, 3 of them (10r,50r, and 100r) are already in the collection and 3 others (20r,200r and 500r) are new entries...these are stamps from the 1st D.Pedro II series, a perforated one .
in this series , we have to highlight two types of 100r stamps:
As you can see by clicking the pictures,as always, the borders of the top left ornament are faint in type 1 and reinforced with a double line in type 2 ... we have also a faint frame border line at the center , in type 1, and a reinforced double line in type 2... it is very clear in both pictures...these two types are valid for this series and in the next one , the first rouletted series of 1876/1877 ...
The 7th stamp is a new entry from the rouletted series of 1876/1877 that share the designs with the first perforated series of 1866/1868 ( the previous 6 stamps were from this series..)
the last two stamp are from the 2nd rouletted series of 1878/1879 , with new designs of an older Emperor, with white beard... SG talks about two varieties of this stamp,one with mauve color and the other with lilac color... if we see the two stamps in detail, we will find that the first is darker than the 2nd ,but I don't think that they are different colors, just different shades from the same color... it is another of the great things about this group of series, the diversity of colors and shades...Today is one of those days when I feel sorry for not having neither a watermark detector or a Color Selector... this last one is very cheap and I will buy one briefly...
I think the next post will be again about a South or Central American country...perhaps a "debut" in the blog... I don't know yet..
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