Backs of Stamps~was skill test for newbies

Hi
As a long time collector of revenues and currently working on a catalogue
of US revenue perfins, from looking at the backs of hundreds of thousands of
stamps, it looks like Brazil to me.
Art


Backs of stamps?
what an ideal place to advertise.
http://cjoint.com/data/hekGLTt0BE.htm

It appears that this ad was handstamped on the back,
after the stamp had been used.

According to collectors of ad-stamps, they collect / catalogue
two types.

1) Cinderellas - poster type stamps advertising a product.
2) Postage stamps with ads PRINTED:
a) on adjoining labels; or
b) on the back BEFORE the stamps were gummed.

A good example of the latter is New Zealand in the 1890s.
http://cjoint.com/data/heoxt4oMQG.htm

I suppose today that personal photo stamps (AU, CA, etc.)
could be used to carry a commercial message. It would be
expensive though. In Canada, you pay about $1 for a fifty
cent stamp, under this scheme.

Blair

As is ours.......(priced for a sheet of 20 stamps)
http://cjoint.com/data/heqYDfyPnS.htm

They vet each image prior to production.



| I suppose today that personal photo stamps (AU, CA, etc.)
| could be used to carry a commercial message. It would be
| expensive though. In Canada, you pay about $1 for a fifty
| cent stamp, under this scheme.
|
| Blair
|

Rodney:

Do they specify the criteria for vetting / approving the photo for the
stamps?

Blair

Hi Blair,
probably much the same as yours.
eg:
http://cjoint.com/data/hfbIcjyGJv.htm

Best Regards,
Rodney







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"Blair (TC)" wrote in message oups.com...
| Rodney:
|
| Do they specify the criteria for vetting / approving the photo for the
| stamps?
|
| Blair
|

you may enjoy these sites on this topic ... "underprints" like perfins
were to guard against employee theft of postage, advertising is a
another form ...

note that expert committees no longer mark philatelic items with stamps
of any kind ....



http://www.geocities.com/david_m_stirling/Home.html

http://www.raster.it/stefano/a/

"Rodney" wrote in message
...
Hi Blair,
probably much the same as yours.
eg:
http://cjoint.com/data/hfbIcjyGJv.htm

Best Regards,
Rodney


There are I think many examples of pictures getting through of people whom
the US Government regards as terrorists or war criminals. I am sure that
Blair can recite a few amusing examples. On the other hand I am sure that
many others have been spotted and rejected by the staff operating the
vetting process. It would be interesting to know the guidlines to which the
staff have to work.

Regards, Roger

Let's trust just two simple guidelines,
common sense, married with a disclaimer .

| There are I think many examples of pictures getting through of people whom
| the US Government regards as terrorists or war criminals. I am sure that
| Blair can recite a few amusing examples. On the other hand I am sure that
| many others have been spotted and rejected by the staff operating the
| vetting process. It would be interesting to know the guidlines to which the
| staff have to work.
|
| Regards, Roger
|
|

phos45 wrote:
you may enjoy these sites on this topic ... "underprints" like perfins
were to guard against employee theft of postage, advertising is a
another form ...

note that expert committees no longer mark philatelic items with stamps
of any kind ....

Are you sure about that? I thought that German expertisers still did.
But, I guess, they are not really a committee.

Look in http://www.bpp.de/pages/pordnung.html , section 6.

[Somewhere on the web I once encountered an English translation of this.]

Hi Eric,

Eric Bustad schrieb:
phos45 wrote:

you may enjoy these sites on this topic ... "underprints" like perfins
were to guard against employee theft of postage, advertising is a
another form ...

note that expert committees no longer mark philatelic items with stamps
of any kind ....


Are you sure about that? I thought that German expertisers still did.

yes, they are still doing it

But, I guess, they are not really a committee.

they are single expertisers. Each one has is a specialist for a certain
area. And all are organisised in the BPP

Look in http://www.bpp.de/pages/pordnung.html , section 6.

[Somewhere on the web I once encountered an English translation of this.]

Regards

Robert