FI Guinness Page 21
 

 

First

Country

Commemorative

Airmail

Post Due

Official

Charity

Other


1919 Sc1 SG3
60 kopeks on 1k orange
Russian handstamped o/p
40p


1921 Sc278 SG210
1 rouble green
First issue of the Soviet Republic
£3
see note 40.1

Armenia

see also 1992

-

-

-

-

-

 

1919  [Russia Sc-N1] [Finnish Occ SG1]
5 pennia green
Finnish o/p
£5.50 / £8.75

Aunus

Finnish Occupation of Russia

-

-

-

-

-

  


1919 Sc1 SG1
10 kopeks multicoloured
40p / 50p

Azerbaijan

see also 1992

-

-

-

-


1921/2 Sc-B1 SG21
500r blue
30p / 60p

 


1919 Sc1 SG1
5 kopeks green
Aloe Tree
£4 / £5


British Occupation
1919 Sc19 SG11
5 kopeks green
#1 o/p
£12 / £12

Batum

 

-

-

-

-

-

  


1919 Sc1N1 SG1
1 centime orange
Belgi1n o/p SG170
Albert 1
45p / 30p

see note 40.4

   Eupen Issue
1920 Sc1N25 SG25
1 centime orange
45p / 25p

Malmedy Issue
1920 Sc1NJ42 SG42
1 centime orange
35p / 30p

Belgian Occupied Germany

-

-

1920
Sc1NJ1 SG-D1
5 c green
Belgian PD o/p 'Eupen'
£1.40 / £1.10

-

-

 

1919
Sc84 SG83
2 qintar on 2 heller brown
 brown
handstamped Austrian Albania fiscal
£5.50 / £5.50

Central Albania

see note 40.5

-

-

-

-

-

 


1919 Sc2 SG37
2 paras purple
handstamped Turkish o/p Sc254
55p / £1


1919  Sc22 SG1
5 pa on 10 pa green
handstamped Turkish o/p ScP137
£1.25 / £1.50

Cilicia

A territory of Turkey, occupied by the British and French in 1918, controlled by the French from 1919, and returned to Turkey in 1923.

see note 40.6

1919
Sc9A SG14
5 pa green
o/p Turkey Sc345
70p / 40p

1920
Sc-C1 SG116
2 piastres on 15 centimes green
o/p Cilicia Sc123, itself a French o/p
£6,500 / £6,500

1919
Sc-J1 SG-D27
5 pa brown
Turkish PD o/p
£1.50 / £2.10

-

1919
Sc22A SG72 (?)
20 pa red
Turkish o/p ScB8
£1.10 / £1.40

 


1919 Sc1 SG76
1 corona on  1 lira brown
Italian surch.
85p / £3.75

see note on previous page

Dalmatia

Austrian Territories acquired by Italy

-

-

-

-

-

 


Image source 1
1919 Sc1 [Denmark SG207]
2 öre on 5ö green
Danish handstamp o/p
£1,000 / £300

see note 40.10

Faroe Islands

see also 1940
 

-

-

-

-

-



1979
SG43 60p

1919
[Hungary Sc-1N1] SG4
2 filler brown
Hungarian o/p
95p / 85p

French Occupied Hungary

Arad Issue

-

-

1919
Sc-1NJ1 SG-D49
2 f green and red
Hungarian o/p
£1.25 / £1.25

-

1919
Sc-1NB1 SG1
10f + 2f red
Hungarian o/p
£22 / £22

see note 40.7

1919
Sc-1NB1 SG2
150f + 2f lilac
Hungarian o/p
£1.60 / £1.60

 


1919 Sc12 SG10
10 kopeks blue
10p / 50p

see note 40.2

Georgia

-

-

-

-


1922 Sc-B1 SG33
1000 roubles on 50 roubles violet
30p / £2

 


1919 Sc1 SG4
2 filler brown
Hungary o/p
30p / 30p

Hungary - Szeged Issue

-

-

1919
Sc-J1 SG-D42
2 f green and red
Szeged o/p
65p / 65p

-

1919
Sc-B1 SG1
20f + 2f red
Szeged o/p
25p / 25p

  

1919
[Austria Sc-N64] SG62
1 centesimi on  1 c brown
Italian surch.
90p / 90p

see note on previous page

Italian Occupied Austria

Austrian Territories acquired by Italy

General Issues

-

-

1919
[Austria Sc-NJ8 SG-D76
5 centesimi on  5 c mauve and orange
Italian PD surch.
40p / 90p

-

-

 


1919 [Mesopotamia ScN42] SG1
½ anna on 1 piastre brown and red
Turkish fiscal surch.
£2.25 / £1.90

Mosul

Stamps used by Indian forces in Mesopotamia (now Iraq)

-

-

-

-

-

 

Northern

1919 Sc1 SG1
5 kopeks purple
10p / 25p

see note 40.3

North-Western
 1919 Sc1 SG6
2 kopeks green
Russian o/p
£2.50 / £6

Western
 1919 Sc? SG21
3 kopeks lilac
£22 / £40

North West Russia

(Russian Armies of the North, Northwest and West)

-

-

-

-

-

 

1919
[Poland Sc2K1] SG1
3 finigi brown
Polish o/p
£35

Polish P.O.s in Turkey

-

-

-

-

-

 

1919
Sc48 SG56
½ d green
NZ o/p
40p / £1

1920
Sc61 SG70
½ d black and green
£4 / £19

Rarotonga

largest of the Cook Islands

-

-

-

-

-

 

1919
[HungarySc-2N1] SG
2 filler green
Hungarian o/p
£ / £

see note 40.9

Romanian Occupied Hungary

-

-

1919
Sc-2NJ1 SG
1 f green and red
Hungarian o/p
£ / £

-

1919
Sc-2NB1 SG2
10f + 2f red
Hungarian o/p
40p / 40p

 


1919 [Hungary Sc7N1] SG1
6 filler drab
Hungarian o/p
15p / 15p

Serbian Occupied Hungary

Baranya

 

 


1919 Sc7NJ1 SG-D38
2 f red and green
Hungarian o/p
£2 / £2

 

1919
Sc7NB1 SG?
50f + 2f lake
[$16 / $16]

 


1919 Sc1  SG5
35 kopeks on 2k green
perf or imperf
Russian surch
25p / £1.25

Siberia

1922
Sc?  SG57
2k green
5th anniv of the Russian Revolution
£8 / £10

-

-

-

-

  

1919
Sc?  SG25
25 kopeks on 1 k orange
Russian surch
20p / 45p

1919
Sc? SG33
20 k green
£18 / £150

Don Cossacks

South Russia

 

-

-

-

-

-

 

1919
 Sc51 SG34
35 kopeks on 1k orange
Russian surch.
15p / 40p

Crimea

South Russia

-

-

-

-

-

 

1919
Sc61 SG38
5 kopeks yellow
10p / 15p

Denikin Government. South Russia

-

-

-

-

-

 

1919
Sc1 SG1
1 millieme on 1 centime grey
French surch.
£160 / £160

French Mandate

1923 Sc104 SG97
10 c on 2 c purple
French surch.
30p / 65p


1925 Sc173 SG175
10 c violet
Hama
15p / 85p

Syria

1920
Sc? SG57
1 piastre on 5 c green
SG35 o/p
£160 / £42


1929 Sc200 SG230
50 c green
Industrial Exhibition, Damascus
o/p Sc177
£2.75 / £2.75

1934
Sc232 SG271
0p10 green
Proclamation of the Republic
£1.60 / £1.75

 

1920
Sc-C1 SG57
1 piastre on 5 centimes green
Sc35 o/p
£160 / £42


1926 Sc-C30 SG192
2 p brown
Sc180 o/p
£2.75 / £2.75


1931 Sc-C46 SG261
50 c yellow
Plane over Homs
95p / £1.60

1920
Sc-J1 SG-D48
1 p on 10 c red
French offices in Turkey surch.
£160 / £160


1925 Sc-J33 SG-D192
50 c brown
40p / £1.50

 

-


1926 Sc-B1 SG196
25c + 25c black
Refugee Relief
o/p Sc174 SG176
£2 / £3.25

1965
Sc-B13 SG883
12½ piastres + 5p multi
Palestine Week
25p / 20p

 

 


1919 [ US Sc-K1] SG1
2 cents on 1c green
US surch.
£19 / £21

US Post Office Shanghai

-

-

-

-

-

 

1918 Sc1 SG?
3  heller violet
Lviv issue
[$50 / $200]


Image source #1
1918 Sc5 SG?
5 shahiv on 15  heller red
Astrian o/p
Kolmyya issue
[$75 / $100]

see note 40.8

1919
Sc85 SG70
3 hryvnia violet
30p

Western Ukraine

-

-

-

-

-

 

First

Country

Commemorative

Airmail

Post Due

Official

Charity

Other

Table 40

Notes:
40.1 On the Armenian Soviet Republic issue, Scott is clear in identifying the is stamp as the first, but Gibbons is not at all clear.
40.2 Georgia #1 rather fun. Scott starts with #12, for reasons explored into two issues of the FICC Newsletter, but still not entirely clear. It is the first entry on my Gibbons Simplified, but numbered 10, the second entry, 40 kopeks red is SG1. I'll have to look at the more detailed Gibbons Part 10 for further elaboration and also get SG1. Floyd Walker states in his FICC article (vol 7, issue 2, page 1), "To summarize, then your first issues collection of Georgia should include Georgia Sc12 [SG10], the National Republic; Georgia Sc26 [SG28a], the Soviet Socialist Republic; Batum Sc1 [SG1], issued by the British; Transcaucasion Federated Republics Sc1; and finally Georgia Sc45." To that, I would add the SG1 40k red. Incidentally, both catalogues state that the Sc12 Sg10 is available both perforated and imperforate: why they do this while taking such pains to distinguish between miniscule perforation variations elsewhere is a mystery to me.
40.3 On Russian Armies, Gibbons lists these under North West Russia and then specifies the Northern Army (SG1-5); the North-Western Army (SG6-16); and the Western Army (SG21-56), all starting in 1919. Scott lists the Army of the North (Sc1-5) and the Northwest (Sc1-14).
40.4 On the Belgian Occupied Germany issues, Scott notes three types. In addition to the example above, there are also the Eupen Issue (Sc1N25 to Sc1N41, SG25 to SG41) and the Malmeady Issue (Sc1N42 to Sc1N58, SG42 to SG58). All are Belgian overprints. The post dues are in two groups, Eupen (Sc1NJ1 to Sc1NJ5, SGD1-D5) and Malmedy (Sc1NJ6 to Sc1NJ10, SGD6-D10). An unusual degree or harmony between Scott and Gibbons.
40.5 Neither Scott nor Gibbons mention Central Albania. Within the main Albania listing, Scott starts a new heading in 1919 for General Issues, so I'll go with that for the moment.
40.6 For Cilicia, Scott starts with #2 - there is no #1. Every stamp is a Turkish or French overprint. The sequencing within the catalogues seems entirely arbitrary and so I'll also show the Gibbons #1. When it comes to commemoratives and charity stamps, these are overprints of Turkish stamps of that type and so I'm not sure whether they are legitimately commemorative or charitable from the Cilician perspective - Scott doesn't number the Charity issue as an ScB#. And finally the handstamped Airmails, both prices at £6,500 (counterfeits exit - no surprises there), Scott states that they were used on the two airmail flights between Adana and Aleppo and seem to have been applied to whatever came to hand at the Adana post office. There may be some errors in my cross-referencing of the stamps - comments and corrections are welcomed here.
40.7 For French Occupied Hungary, SG1 is an overprint of an Hungarian Charity stamp, so Scott regards this as ScB1 and looks for Sc1 elswehere. It is also rather expensive, so I also mention ScB2 SG2 as a suitable alternative.
40.8 For Western Ukraine, Scott starts in 1918 with Austrian overprints, Gibbons in 1919 Austrian overprints. In December 2005, Scott announced a reorganisation of the Western Ukraine early issues: #1 became #5 and vice versa.
40.9 Scott and Gibbons differ in their approaches to Romanian Occupied Hungary. Scott has five issues: First (Hungary Sc2N1 to 2N59) and Second (Sc3N to 3N34) Debrecen Issue, Temesvar Issue (Sc4N1 to 4N5) , then First (Sc5N1 to 5N23) and Second (Sc6N1 to 6N50) Transylvania Issues. Gibbons has issues for Banat Bacska (SG1 to 42), Debrecen (SG1 to 94) and Temesvar (SG6 to 10). Scott shows Banat Bacska overprints as Serbian Occupied Hungary. I think I will return to these later.
40.10 Scott calls this Faroe Islands #1 - in Gibbons it is just a Denmark overprint. Either way I cannot afford it.

 

First

Country

Commemorative

Airmail

Post Due

Official

Charity

Other


1920 Sc1 SG1
5 pfennigs green
German o/p
10p / 20p

Allenstein

-

-

-

-

-

 


image source 6
 Arbe 1920
 [Fiume Sc122] SG1A
5 centesimi green
Fiume o/p
£110 / £55


 image source 6
Veglia 1920
 [Fiume Sc128] SG1A
5 centesimi green
Fiume o/p
£110 / £55

Arbe and Veglia

see note 41.8

-

-

-

-

-

 


1920 Sc-4LB1 SG163a
5 paras on 4f grey
Carinthia Plebiscite
10p / 25p

Carinthia

Yugoslavia

see note on previous page

-

-

-

-

-

 

Under French Occupation
1920
Sc1 SG-F1
1 centime grey
French Offices in Turkey o/p
£30 / £30

Under Italian Domination
1922
Sc51 SG15
5 centime green
Italian o/p
90p / £15

1923
Sc60 SG10
5 c green
£1.90 / £11

Castelrosso

1930
Sc75 SG25
20 c violet
Ferrucci Issue
£4.25 / £3.25

-

-

-

-

 


1920 Sc1 SG1
25 fenigi red
10p / 10p

Central Lithuania


1921 Sc57 SG42
100 markka blue and bistre
perf of imperf
Anniv. of General Zeligowski entering Vilnius
£1.75 / £1.75

 


1921 Sc-J1 SG-D23
50 f red violet
Vilnius University
50p / 60p

-


1921 Sc-B1 SG23
25f + 2m red
surch. Sc1 SG1
to fund plebiscite in Upper Silesia
50p / 60p

 


1920 Sc1 SG1
5 pfennig green
o/p Germany
20p / 30p


1921 Sc49 SG44
5 pf brown and violet
20p / 30p

Danzig


1930
Sc200 SG210
5 pf orange
10th anniv of the Free State
£2 / £3


1920 Sc-C1 SG41
40pf on 40pf red
 o/p Sc6
£1.25 / £3


1921 Sc-C4 SG57
4o (pf) green
Sabaltnig PIII over Danzig
20p / 50p

 


1921 Sc-J1 SG-D94
10 (pf) purple
20p / 35p


1921 Sc-O1 SG-O94
5 (pf) orange
o/p Sc63 SG64
30p / 30p


1921 Sc-B1 SG93a
30pf + 30pf green and orange
Saint George and the Dragon
Tuberculosis Week
60p / 50p

LAST
 
1939 Sc240 SG287
25 pf green
Wilhelm Roentgen
85p / £2

see note 41.3

 1939
Sc254 SG?
2 marks on 2 gulden red
o/p Sc?
[$13 / $32.50]


1920 Sc1 SG23
1 heller brown
Czechoslovakia o/p
20p / 10p

Eastern Silesia

-

-

1920
Sc-J1 SG-D46
5 h olive
Czechoslovakia PD o/p
20p / 15p

-

-

 

1920
Sc2 [Siberia SG33]
2 kopecks green
Russian surch.
£1.90 / £2.50

1920
Sc38 SG?
2 kopecks green
[1.50 / $1.50]

see note 41.4

1922
Sc49 SG47
1 kopecks orange
50p / £1.10

Far Eastern Republic

1922
Sc62 SG57
2 k green
5th anniv. of the Russian Revolution
Sc38 o/p
£8 / £10

-

-

-

-

 

British Mandate

1920 Sc1 SG1
1 millieme brown
Palestine o/p
60p / £1.50

Independence
1923
Sc73 SG98A
1 m brown
Palestine o/p
£17 / £17


1927 Sc145 SG159
2 mils blue
Amir Abdullah ibn Hussein
20p / 30p

Jordan

1922
Sc30 SG45
1 m brown
violet handstamp o/p Sc1
Arab Government of the East
£12 / £15

1928
Sc158 SG173
2 m blue
o/p Sc145 SG159
£1.25 / £2.75

1946
Sc221 SG149
1 m purple
Independence of the Kingdom of Trans-Jordan
10p / 10p


1950 Sc-C1 SG295
 5 fils purple and yellow
10p / 25p

1923
Sc-J1 SG-D112
½ piastre on 3 piastre brown
o/p Sc69
£16 / £20


1929 Sc-J30 SG-D244
1 m brown
60p / £3

1924
Sc? SG-O117
½ p red
Saudi Arabia o/p
£20 / £100
 

1930
Sc-B1 SG183
2 m blue
o/p Sc145 SG159
Locust Campaign
£1.75 / £5

1947
Sc-RA1 SG-T264
1 m blue
Welfare Fund for Arabs in Palestine
30p / 20p

 

 

1920
Sc1 SG1
1 centimo green
Rio de Oro o/p
£1.60 / £1.60

1922
Sc14 SG14
1 c turquoise
King Alfonsa XIII
70p / 70p

La Aguera

Administrative district of Spanish Sahara

-

-

-

-

-

LAST
1922
Sc26 SG26
10 pesetas orange
£25 / £25

 


1920 Sc1 SG1
5 pfennig green
35p / 35p

Marienwerder

-

-

-

-

-

-

1920
 Sc? SG1
5 pf on 5 centimes  green
25p / 40p


1920 Sc1 SG25
5 pfennig green
30p / £1

see note 41.1

Memel

-


image source 6
1921 Sc-C1 SG53
60 pf on 40 c red and blue
£30 / £50

see note 41.5

1921
Sc-C2 SG55
80 pf on 45 c green and blue
£2.75 / £7

-

-

-

 


1923 Sc-N1 SG6
10 marks on 5c blue
75p / £3

1923
 Sc-N7 SG1
10 marks on 5c blue
40p / £1.30

see note 41.1

1923
 Sc-N18 SG18
10 m brown
30p / 55p

Memel, Lithuanian Occupation
 

1923
 Sc-N31 SG28
40 m green
Liner, Memel Port
Union of Memel and Lithuania
£2.75 / £16

 

 - - - -  


1920 Sc1 SG1
5 pennia green
£2.25 / £3.75

North Ingermanland

-

-

-

-

-

 


1920 Sc1 SG1
2 pf grey
.75 / £2.25


1921 Sc68 SG53
5 pf violet and green
Old Mill near Mettlach
20p / 25p

Saar

see also 1947


1933 Sc-B44 SG166
60c + 60c orange
Neunkirchen Explosion Disater
£8.50 / £16

see note 41.2


1928 Sc-C1 SG126
50 c red
Breguet biplane over Saarbrüken
£2.25 / £2.75

 


1922 Sc-O1 SG-O98
3 c green
o/p SG84
85p / £24


1926 Sc-B1 SG104
20c + 20c green
Welfare Fund
£5.50 / £14

 


1920 Sc1 SG1
2½ pfennig grey
10p / 10p

Schleswig

-

-

-

-

-

 

1920
Sc-N1 SG28
1 stotinki black
Bulgarian handstamp o/p
25p / 30p

see note 41.6


Image source 6
1913 Sc1 SG?
10 lepta on 20 parase red
Turkish o/p
[$17.50 / $30]

Thrace

-

-

1919
Sc-NJ1 SG-D37
5 stotinki green
Bulgaria PD o/p
40p / 40p

-

-

 


1920 Sc1 SG1
2½ pfennig grey
35p / 50p

Upper Silesia

1921
Sc32 SG36
10 pf red
Sc18 o/p
Plebiscite
£2 / £6

-

-

1920
Sc-O1 SG-O1
2 pf grey
German o/p
£900

-

 


1920 Sc1 SG1
1 centime violet and purple
10p / 30p


1928 Sc43 SG40
1 c blue and green
35p / £2.25

Upper Volta

see French West Africa, 1943

and Republic of Upper Volta, 1959

1931
Sc66 SG63
40 c green and black
Colonial Exposition CDT
£4 / £7.50

-


1920 Sc-J1 SG-D18
5 c green
Upper Senegal and Niger PD o/p
15p / £3.25

1928
Sc-J11 SG-D63
5 c green
35p / 75p

-

-

 


1920 Sc1 SG1
1 centime black on green
25p / 35p


1944 Sc127 SG126
5 c brown
15p / £2.75

Wallis and Futuna Is

1931
Sc85 SG85
40 c green
Colonial Exposition CDT
£4.75 / £7.75


1946 Sc-C1 SG149
8 francs violet
25p / £3.25


1920 Sc-J1 SG-D18
5 c blue
New Caledonia PD o/p
40p / £3.25


1963 Sc-J37 SG-D182
1 fr multi
£2 / £2.25

-

1939
Sc-B1 SG91
45c + 25c green
150th anniv. of the French Revolution, surcharge for defence of the colonies
£11 / £19

 

1920
South Russia SG52
5 roubles on 5 kopeks red
Crimea surch.
£2 / £3.75

see note 41.7

1921
Russia Turkish Offices Sc232
10,000 roubles on 3.50 roubles  black and grey
[$25 / $25]

Wrangel Government, South Russia

-

-

-

-

-

 

First

Country

Commemorative

Airmail

Post Due

Official

Charity

Other

Table 41

Notes:
41.1  For Memel, Gibbons starts with a series of French overprints, Sg1-16 before listing the German o/ps. Following Lithuanian occupation, Gibbons starts again at #1 while Scott switches to an N range. I have added these as another row on this page, but they might move in with the other 1923s later. There are two variants on the first Memel occupation overprints and Scott and Gibbons number them in opposite sequences.
41.2 It is difficult to tell which 1933 issue Mackay regards as the first Saar commemorative. I'm guessing the Neunkirchen Explosion Disaster, which  Scott regards as a Charity stamp.
41.3 There are two contenders for Danzig's last stamp. The 1939 Anti-Cancer Campaign issue (featuring Mendel, Koch and Roentgen on three values) is the last under the auspices of Danzig. This was followed by a series of Deutches Reich overprints of previous Danzig stamps under German administration, valid throughout Germany. The former is my preference on aesthetic, financial and political grounds.
41.4 For the Far Eastern Republic, Scott distinguishes between the Vladivostock Issues (1920, SC1-36; 1923 Sc66-70); the Chita Issues (1921, Sc38-41; 1922 Sc49-58); and the Blagoveshchensk Issue (1921, Sc42-46).
41.5 Memel airmail - C1 is rather expensive, C2 is similar and 5% of the price.
41.6 For Thrace, Mackay and Gibbons begin in 1920 with Bulgarian overprints. Scott regards this as the beginning of Allied occupation and so starts an ScN series, but goes back to 1913 for Sc1, noting "Thrace underwent many political changes during the Balkan Wars and World War 1. It was finally divided among[st] Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria."
41.7 Wrangel Government is another can of worms, requiring further investigation on the second pass for these pages. Until then I'll show Scott and Gibbons firsts separately.
41.8 For both Arbe and Veglia, there are two versions of the overprints, 1A priced at £110 / £55 issued on 18th November 1920 with the large overprints and the 1B priced at £2.50 / £2.50 for the small overprints issued on 28th November. So far the details for A&V are identical. The only difference is the print sizes: for Arbe, large=15mm and small is 12mm; for Veglia large=18mm and small=15mm. I'll settle for the small.
 

   

 

 

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