ArchaeoStamps Catalog 2010

Philately and archaeology A-E

Before numbers

ATM Automatenmarken

C Cinderella, poster stamps

NI Not Issued

P Personalized

PS Postal Stationery

R Revenue

Mail type

Ordinary

Air mail

Military

Newspaper

Official

Parcel

T Tax

Semi-postal

Special delivery

Train

War tax

Air post semi-postal

Postmarks

FDC First day cover

MC Maximum card

CS Conmemorative sheet

The symbol is for:

The Illegal Stamps were defined by the General Assembly of the WADP, in its second meeting (2000. 6 October), as: Illegal issues for territories which are not entitled to issue stamps and false stamps produced by fraudsters in the name of an issuing authority with the intent to defraud collectors.

Undesirable stamps we understand those produced under doubtful circumstances, without the control of the countries (in the name of which they were issued) over their quantities and different varieties (imperfs, sheets, etc). Please note that we don't speak here about one or two sets, produces let's say in the interval of a decade in a country, by some private firms, and where the experts cannot agree if there were used for postal purposes, or if the were produced with the approval of the respective postal administration. We speak about stamps that were produced with the approval of PAs of poor countries, in big quantities, in order to be sold to stamp collectors worldwide without any control

Excessive stamps are some issued issued in quantities that exceed by large margins the postal necessities of those countries. An example is Liberia (a country in war), that issued in the year 2000 a total of 771 different pieces, comprises 677 stamps and 94 souvenir sheets.