First |
Country |
Commemorative |
Airmail |
Post Due |
Official |
Charity |
Other |

1866
Sc1 SG17
1 d blue
£38 / £13 |
British
Honduras
see also Belize, 1973 |

1921
Sc89 SG121
Peace
2 cents red
£2.50 / 30p |
- |

1923
Sc-J1 SG-D1
1 c black
£1.50 / £10 |
- |

1916
Sc-MR1 SG114
1 c green
o/p Sc85 SG111a, 1915
10p / 40p
see note 14.3

1932
Sc-B1 SG138
1c +1c green
o/p Sc91 SG126
Belize Hurricane Relief
70p / £6.50 |
|

1866
Sc1 SG1
5 paras grey
£35 / £25

1867
Sc8 SG11
5 paras yellow
£25 / £8 |
Egypt
see also UAR, 1958 |

1922
Sc78 SG
1 m brown
75p / 60p
see note 14.1

1922
Sc SG123
5 milliemes brown
£3.75 / £3.75 |

1926
Sc-C1 SG132
27 m violet
£11.50 / £14.50
see note 14.2

1933
Sc-C5 SG193
1 m orange and black
20p / 20p |

1884
Sc-J1 SG-D57
10 pa red
£42 / £9 |

1922
Sc-O1 SG-O64
(-) brown
£1.60 / 10p |

1940
Sc-B1 SG284
5m + 5m brown-lake
Child Welfare Issue
35p / 30p |

1926
Sc-E1 SG-E138
20m deep green
Express Letter
£10 / £5
Stamps on Stamps

1991
SG1797 10p
|

1866
Sc1 SG1
2 reales black on green
60p |
Honduras |

1892
Sc65 SG56
1 centavo grey
400th anniv. of Columbus's discovery of America
15p / 20p |
1925
Sc-C1 SG227
5 c blue
o/p Sc176, 1915
£65 / £65
1929
Sc-C13C SG?
50 c red
£ / £ see
note 14.9 |
- |

1890
Sc-O1 SG-O56
1 c yellow
o/p Sc40, 1890
15p |

1941
Sc-RA1 SG409
1 c brown
Obligatory tax, Red Cross
15p / 10p |
|
Jammu and Kashmir

Image source 1
1866
Sc1 SG1
½ anna black
£170 / £80
Jammu
1867
Sc6 SG52
½ anna black
£700 / £225
Kashmir
1866
Sc62 SG87
½ anna black
£2500 / £350 |
Jammu and
Kashmir |
- |
- |
- |
1878
Sc-O1 SG-O6
½ anna black
45p / 50p |
- |
|

image source 1
1866
Sc1 SG?
1 para green
[$45]see
note 14.4 |
Serbia |

1904
Sc79 SG108
5 p green
Centenary of the Karageorgevic Dynasty
20p / 10p |
- |

1895
Sc-J1 SG-D87
5 p mauve
50p / 30p |
1943
Sc-2NO1 SG-GO78
3 dinar red
60p / £2
see note 14.5 |
- |
|

1866
Sc1 SG1
1 d green
£45 / £60 |
(British)
Virgin
Islands |

1935
Sc69 SG103
1 d blue and red
Silver Jubilee
95p / £1.75 |
- |
- |
- |

1917
Sc-MR1 SG78c
1 d red
War Stamp
20p / £2.75 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|

image source 1
1867
Sc1 SG1
2 soldi yellow
£1.10 / £22 |
Austrian
POs
in Turkey
|
1908
Sc46 SG60
10 paras green on yellow
60th anniv. of Emperor's accession
15p / 10p |
- |
1902
Sc-J1 SG-D50
10 pa on 5h green
surcharge on Austrian stamp
£1 / £2.50 |
- |
- |
|

1867
Sc1 SG3a Mi1
5 centavos green
£2.40 / £3 |
Bolivia |
1909
Sc78 SG110 Mi73
15 c blue
Centenary of the Revolution
£5 / £2.75 |

1924
Sc-C1 SG170 Mi130
10c black and red
30p / 25p |

1931
Sc-J1 SG-D265 Mi1
5 c blue
70p / 85p |
- |

1939
Sc-RA1 SG374 Mi1
5 c violet
Obligatory Tax, Workers' Home Building Fund
35p / 10p |

Stamps on Stamps
1942 SG384 65p

1963 SG856- 858 MS |

1867
Sc1 SG1
½ real blue
90p / 90p |
(El) Salvador |

1892
Sc60 SG52
1 centavo green
400th anniv. of Columbus' discovery of America
15p / 15p |

1929
Sc-C1 SG771
20 c green
surcharge Sc501 SG756, 1924
45p / 45p
see note 14.6
1930
Sc-C11 SG775
15 c red
Curtis "Jenny" over San Salvador
30p / 10p |
1895
Sc-J1 SG-D107
1 c green
10p / 15p |

1896
Sc-O1 SG-O170
1 c blue
o/p Sc134 SG137, 1896
10p |
- |
|

1867
Sc1 SG6b
½ schilling
Queen Victoria
£95 / £150
see note 14.7 |
Heligoland
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|

1867
Sc1 SG1
1½ cents on ½ anna blue
£85 / £200
see note 14.8

1867
Sc10 SG11
2 cents brown
£25 / £4 |
Straits
Settlements Malaysia
 |

1922
Sc179d SG250
1 c black
o/p Sc150 SG218, 1918
Malaya-Borneo Exhibition
£1.50 / £8.50

1922
Sc213 SG256
5 c blue and grey
Silver Jubilee
£3 / 30p |
- |

1924
Sc-J1 SG-D1
1 c violet
£4 / £5.50 |
- |
1917
Sc-B1 SG216
2 c on 3 c red
surcharge Sc152 SG196a, 1912
Red Cross
£1.75 / £22 |
|

1867
Sc1 SG63
1 d red
£55 / £30
see note 14.10 |
Turks
Islands
see also
Turks and Caicos 1900 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
First |
Country |
Commemorative |
Airmail |
Post Due |
Official |
Charity |
Other |
Table 14
Notes:
14.1 Mackay
shows the first Egyptian commemorative as the 1922 issue, a 1914 definitive
overprinted in Arabic with the words "The Kingdom of Egypt, 15th March 1922". I
suppose this is strictly true, but it is rather an lacklustre stamp. I also
offer the first 'real' commemorative, the 1925 Thoth writing the name of King
Fuad for the International Geographical Congress, Cairo, an altogether more
attractive sight.
14.2 Egypt was my first real obsession in stamps and so I
will indulge myself here. The first airmail is good, but the second is
magnificent - this was the stamp which drew me to collect Egypt in the first
place. So in it goes.
14.3 Mackay regards the first British Honduras Charity as the
1916 War issue. Scott's B!, however, is a 1932 issue for hurricane relief in
Belize.
14.4 For Serbia, Scott starts with 4 imperforate stamps of 1
and 2 paras not listed in Gibbons Simplified.
14.5 The Serbian Official stamp was issued under German
Occupation.
14.6 Scott and Gibbons
disagree on the date of the first El Salvador airmail, 1929 and 1930
respectively.
14.7 Heligoland is another
case where Scott makes many more distinctions (in terms of perforations and
paper) than Gibbons Simplified. The price quoted in my Scott Classic 2001 for
the SC1 1867 ½ schilling is $400 / $1,400, whereas Gibbons 1998 quotes £95 /
£150. The designs of the early Heligolands are very similar, and so more
reasonably priced options would be the 1873 ¼ schilling (Sc7 SG5) or ¾ schilling
(Sc10 SG7) stamps at £26 and £29 mint respectively. Both catalogues warn of the
many reprints in existence.
14.8 Straits Settlements starts in September 1867 with
surcharges on Indian stamps. Later that year the first real stamp arrives,
Sc10 SG11.
14.9 I cannot find the Honduras ScC6 airmail in Gibbons
Simplified.
14.10 Mackay is confusing on Turks (and Caicos), including
in Turks Is the 1917 War Tax and 1935 on Turks and Caicos stamps.
Table 15
Notes:
15.1
Orange River Colony (a.k.a. Orange Free State) Sc#3,
above, was issued 15 years
before Sc#1 (½ d brown), with Sc#2 (½ d orange) even later in 1897.
15.2 It took 42 years for Azores to produce a real stamp,
the 1910 2½ reis lilac.
15.3 Fernando Po (or is it Poo)'s first commemorative barely
qualifies for the title. It is an overprint of a 1929 Spanish issue celebrating
the Seville and Barcelona exhibition.
15.4 Madiera's stamps for 60 years from 1868 were
overprints of Portugal's stamps: none of them are particularly affordable and
forgeries are commonplace. The firs real Madeira definitive is the 1928 3
centavos.
15.5 Fernando Poo's #1 is its only stamp using that design
and so there is no cheaper alternative value in a first set available.
15.6 For anyone who, like me, has difficulty in finding the
North German Confederation in Scott, it is at the end of the German States, just
before Germany itself.
15.7 The two 1869 Gambia imperforate issues (4d brown and 6d
blue) are both expensive. The same design was used for the perforated issues of
various denominations until 1897 and so the sensibly-priced 1886 Sc17 SG30 4d
brown might be considered at £2.75 / £2.
15.8 For Hyderabad, Scott's #1 (½ anna brown, SG1) and #3 (2a
green, SG3) were issued in 1871, leaving #2 as the first stamp.
15.9 Gibbons Simplified, for Transvaal, does not
distinguish between imperforate and rouletted.
