1945 LJUBLJANA, Very early cancellation

Ljubljana provisional issue was released on June 7th. I have not seen a commercial shipment cancelled on June 7th or 8th. Most likely, the stamps were not available in the post offices until June 9th ...

1945 Ljubljana provisional issue, registered letter, franked with 2.5 Lire (1 Lire for the letter + 1.5 Lire for the registration), sent from Ljubljana (9.VI.45) to Osijek (16.VI.45) and redirected to Zagreb where it was censored. Very early cancellation.

1945 MOSTAR, Flaws on rare paper

The three most famous typical flaws of this issue are:

• Demokrntska instead of Demokratska (field 49)
• Jngoslavija instead of Jugoslavija (field 70)
• Jugosiavija instead of Jugoslavija (field 85)

In general, stamps with these flaws are not rare. However, if you take into account also a rarity of some types of papers, you can get extremely rare or even unique stamps. For example, only two sheets of No. 2 10/0.5 Kn on intaglio paper were overprinted. Initially, both sheets exist in the tête-bêche format. Before overprint one was separated down the middle and rejoined in normal position while the second inadvertently remained in the tête-bêche format. Therefore the overprinting of these two sheets resulted in 150 stamps with normal and 50 stamps with inverted overprint.

Position of three typical flaws on rejoined and tête-bêche sheet.

Consequently, the quantities of the three typical flaws are:

• Demokrntska normal overprint - unique
• Demokrntska inverted overprint - unique
• Jngoslavija normal overprint - unique
• Jngoslavija inverted overprint - unique
• Jugosiavija normal overprint - 2 pieces (possibly one of them in tête-bêche pair)

1945 Mostar provisional issue, No. 2, 10/0.5 Kn, a set of three on intaglio paper, each with a typical flaw: Demokrntska (unique), Jngoslavija (unique) and Jugosiavija (one of two possible). Ex Tiberio.