Sindelfingen stamp fair

I spent a nice day looking for treasures and meeting new colleagues...

2019 Sindelfingen stamp fair.

At the Association of Philatelic Examiners eV. exhibition corner. 

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1945 CETINJE, Double overprint

Only one sheet of 20 Lire / 2 Lire was double overprinted. Since the layout of a sheet was 5x4, only 20 stamps could exist with this variety. The most famous of them is the one from position 2 having typical error D instead of A.

1945 Cetinje local provisional issue, 20/2 Lire, block of four with double overprint. Positions 1-2/6-7. Stamp at position 2 with typical error D instead of A (Демократскд instead of Демократска). Unique item! Certificate Veličković.

1944 SENTA, 75th Anniversary

Today (20.10.2019) is the 75th anniversary of the Senta local issue. On 18.10.1944 the Senta Liberation Committee decided that the Hungarian postage stamps should be overprinted with symbols of the new communist regime. 

18.10.1944, Senta Liberation Committee document (from Senta city archive)

..."in the middle red star at it hammer and sickle in black and with inscription Senta, 8-X-1944”...

The following day, the president of the Local Liberation Committee, comrade Isa Nešić, issued an order to overprint stamps. Interestingly, the instructions about overprint content changed. Probably due to the technical difficulties were not being able to provide such details like the hammer and a sickle.

19.10.1944, Order with final instructions for the overprint.

..."on the upper part the inscription 8.X.1944 at the bottom edge the inscription Jugoslavia in black color and a five-pointed star in red in the middle"...

On 20.10.1944, 28 different stamps were overprinted. 

1944 Senta local provisional issue, Mi. 1-10, I-XIV, P1, PI-III. Max 34 complets exist.

 

A pair of commemorative sheets with all 28 stamps. Only 16 issued.

1941 MEĐIMURJE, 30 din block of 4

1941 Međimurje issue was prepared with several print stages. The item below is from the second printing where blocks of four were overprinted with the form of 2x2 clichés using all four subtypes of coat-of-arms together. For the detailed classification of overprints see my article in Acta Philatelica 2018.

1941 Međimurje, local issue, 30 din in the block of four.
Only this block of four is known.

For a complete article order:

ACTA PHILATELICA NOVA 2018

Croatian philatelic almanac

Independent State of Croatia

Međimurje local issue 1941

Chapters:

Introduction

Catalogue Listing

Overprint

Coat - of - arms

First Overprinting Phase

Second Overprinting Phase

Third Overprinting Phase

Additional Overprinting

Overprinted Stationery Postcard

Determining Overprint Types, Subtypes and Variants

Overprint Forgeries

Overprint Errors

Postal Use of Overprinted Stamps

Forgeries of Postal Use

Valuation of the Issue

Conclusion

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Concentration camp Corropoli

Concentration camp Corropoli (province Teramo) operated from January 1941 to May 1944. The maximum capacity was 150 internees, mostly Slavic and Italian communists as well as Jews.

Letter sent from Corropoli - province Teramo (27.6.42) to Lubljana, free of charge as internee mail, censor mark 15. Very interesting content where the son asks his mother not to write to him in Slovene because the censorship makes the delivery of the mail very late.

1945 Split, Very late use

Another special and unique item, a real postal curiosity - stationery used two years after the official withdraw...

1945 Split provisional issue, stationery of type St2 IIa, sent from Split (9.7.47) to Zagreb. The postman applied a T mark and wrote in blue pencil: "nedopusteno" ("unallowed") and "natrag Split" ("return Split"). Stationery has returned to Split 13.VII.45 when the postmen wrote: "Pošiljatelj nepoznat" ("Sender unknown"). Very late use.

Poorly visible inscription "Pošiljatelj nepoznat" ("Sender unknown").

PhilAdria 22th Stamp auction

It is always enjoyable to attend a philatelic auction in Ljubljana. To buy some nice items and to face philatelic friends...

PhilAdria auction hall.

Partisan mail in Split

The Independent State of Croatia had power in Split until October 26, 1944. Before that, the partisan mail was carried by couriers - mostly women members of the national liberation movement. To protect the recipients, all letters were reviewed and anonymized. They used a numbered list of recipients so that in the case of seizure nobody could know to whom it was sent. Very few items are preserved...

 

Partisan mail, letter sent from island Vis (written 21.VIII.44) to Split (25.IX.44), censored at departure in Vis with two-line censorship cancel POŠTA VIS/CENZURISANO and at arrival in Split by the City Liberation Committee. The name and address of the recipient were repainted and replaced with the number 275. 

With the help of computer image processing, we can extract hidden content...

Disclosed addressee and address.

Concentration camp Aprica

In the town of Aprica (province Sondrio) was a small concentration camp where the Yugoslav Jews were deported. The camp is known for the great escape when more than 200 internees fled to Switzerland in the fall of 1943. Mail from this camp is very rare.

Picture postcard of Aprica, sent from Sondrio (12.5.43) to Nova vas (Lubiana), free of charge as internee mail, censored in Sondrio with Police headquarters censor mark.

1945 Transadriatic mail from Belgrade

Most of the transadriatic mail I have seen so far is mail between places in Dalmatia (mostly Split and Vis) and Bari or Lecce in Italy. Mail from other places is very rare ...

Letter sent from Belgrade to Bari, most likely in the spring of 1945, censored on departure in Belgrade by the military censor A and at arrival by the Allied Military Censorship 0106.