"Blair (TC)" wrote in message
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On Feb 23, 7:26 pm, "Victor Manta" wrote:
"rod222" wrote in message

pond.com...

A large format 4k
Can anyone ID this monster?

http://cjoint.com/data/0cvpsAUAPJF.htm

Rodney,

I have asked on a Russian stamp collectors forum about this stamp. The
participants proposed the following images:

http://rusforum.mystampworld.com/dow...sid=0f22d1d8d6...

Now the question is if this unusual large format wasn't by chance cut off
the postal card and then perforated.

Do you know something about the paper of this stamp?

Victor Manta, PWO, AIJP


Victor:

If you look at the scan of the back of Rod's stamp,
you can see a box (for a stamp) and a doitted address line from
a postcard.

The box is the size of the small stamp. Thus this is an adhesive
stamp. A card cut-out would not pickup the lines.

I would not have washed the back.

4 kop was the foreign postcard rate in 1915.

Any postal stationery.that I have seen had regular size imprints

The mystery continues.

Blair


Blair,

The same objections appear also on the Russian forum but I wanted to be sure
at least about the paper and let them know.

Victor