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Old March 22nd 08, 08:58 AM posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
Rodney
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Default (RCSD) Pakistan "overprint" ?

According to this correspondant,
one should "forget about" the wartime overprints.
http://cjoint.com/data/dwi1xjBMcT.htm


"Asia-translation" wrote in message
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I suspect it might be part of 'Muzaffarabad' - the capital of Azad
(Pakistani-controlled) Kashmir. Though quite why it should have been
stamped a stamp, I can't suggest.

Tony of the Antipodes



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Old March 22nd 08, 09:11 AM posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:56:10 -0700 (PDT), "Blair (TC)"
wrote:

On Mar 21, 10:53 pm, wrote:
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:40:56 -0700 (PDT), "Blair (TC)"

wrote:

Yep. Too many jokes sent out in e-mails. His computer is backing up
and overflowing...



Hardly. I was updating the subject lines with (RCSD).


Aha - I see said the... I already said that - it's too late and my
eyes are blinded by Belgian cancels.
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Old March 22nd 08, 04:20 PM posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Default (RCSD) Pakistan "overprint" ?

On Mar 22, 3:58 am, "rodney" wrote:
According to this correspondant,
one should "forget about" the wartime overprints.http://cjoint.com/data/dwi1xjBMcT.htm


I find that this item in ASN insults the intelligence
of the average collector. I notice that the author
didn't even have the courage to put his name on it.

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Old March 23rd 08, 01:44 AM posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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"Blair (TC)" wrote in message
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On Mar 22, 3:58 am, "rodney" wrote:
According to this correspondant,
one should "forget about" the wartime
overprints.http://cjoint.com/data/dwi1xjBMcT.htm


I find that this item in ASN insults the intelligence
of the average collector. I notice that the author
didn't even have the courage to put his name on it.



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Old March 23rd 08, 01:46 AM posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
Rodney
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Yes, I found it odd, you would think that a stamp magazine
would always be on the side of "encouragement".
Possibly flew past the editors gaze, late on a Friday arvo.


"Blair (TC)"
According to this correspondant,
one should "forget about" the wartime
overprints.http://cjoint.com/data/dwi1xjBMcT.htm


I find that this item in ASN insults the intelligence
of the average collector. I notice that the author
didn't even have the courage to put his name on it.



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Old March 23rd 08, 09:07 AM posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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On Mar 23, 11:46 am, "rodney" wrote:
Yes, I found it odd, you would think that a stamp magazine
would always be on the side of "encouragement".
Possibly flew past the editors gaze, late on a Friday arvo.

"Blair (TC)"

According to this correspondant,
one should "forget about" the wartime
overprints.http://cjoint.com/data/dwi1xjBMcT.htm


I find that this item in ASN insults the intelligence
of the average collector. I notice that the author
didn't even have the courage to put his name on it.


Or was it simply a press release from the (then) new Bangladesh PO,
aimed at promoting the new definitives? The old ASM wasn't above
simply reproducing such things without comment.

Anyway, even if the Bangladesh overprints have fallen into a bit of a
philatelic black hole, the old Pakistan overprints on India haven't.
Still a lot of meat on those bones.

T of the A
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Old March 23rd 08, 10:04 AM posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
Rodney
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"Asia-translation"
Or was it simply a press release from the (then) new Bangladesh PO,
aimed at promoting the new definitives? The old ASM wasn't above
simply reproducing such things without comment.


You nailed it!
I was about to post an article on an Irish stamp, re the RNLI for Blair,
when I realised it was word perfect, for an article I posted for him
from the "Australian Stamp News" of the same period.
They were both guilty of that, but the "Stamp News" under the reins
of Bill Hornadge was more "hands on" than that of the "monthly" which,
as they put it, simply "The newspaper of philately"

I have kept all my Pakistan overprints, because I couldn't figure out
which were forgeries and which were genuine.



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Old March 24th 08, 08:59 AM posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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On Mar 23, 8:04 pm, "rodney" wrote:


I have kept all my Pakistan overprints, because I couldn't figure out
which were forgeries and which were genuine.


There was a book on the Pakistan overprints, and there was a follow-up
series of articles about the overprints on postal stationery in the
Collector;s Club Philatelist. The book is (or was) in the public
library here in Melbourne: I remember consulting it occasionally.
Very interesting. 'The Amirate of Bahawalpur - Its postal history &
stamps' by Dr Captain U.A.G. Isani Syed Abid Hussain also has a
section on the Bahawalpur 'Pakistan' overprints, as well as the
Bahwalpur overprints on India. I have this book, in case you're
interested.

I also have a small accumulation of the overprints I mean to do
something about, some day ... some day -

T of the A
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Old March 24th 08, 09:32 AM posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Default (RCSD) Pakistan "overprint" ?


"Asia-translation"
Bahwalpur overprints on India. I have this book, in case you're
interested.


neither a lender, nor borrower be but thanks Tony.

I also have a small accumulation


I can imagine, probably thousands I'll check at the Perth Central
Library
on Wednesday to see what is on offer.
I have been meaning to go for some months, I'd very much like to
belong to those who can read the online JSTOR journals, there is
absolute delightful array of journalistic pieces awaiting discovery there.

of the overprints I mean to do
something about, some day ... some day -
T of the A



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Old March 25th 08, 06:45 PM posted to rec.collecting.stamps.discuss
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Default (RCSD) Pakistan "overprint" ?

Re. "Muzarafabad" as an overprint.

Could this be some sort of a fiscal cancel do you think? As it crosses
the stamp at both ends it could have been used to "tie" the stamp to
the document being receipted ( or whatever ) in the same way as
signatures had to cross the stamp to tie UK revenue usages to the
cheque or receipt or whatever.

Did Pakistan use these stamps as revenue as well as postage stamps -
particularly the ones overprinted "service" ?

This seems to be a more plausible scenario than the stamp being used
in Bangladesh.

The problem is that sub-continent stamps ( apart from your beloved
feudatory states ! ) seem to attract little interest - and I am sure
that there are many fascinating byways to collecting this area that
have not even had the surface scratched yet.

One thing I should mention is that the colour has "bled" somewhat so I
guess it has been subject to some pretty heavy soaking. I picked this
up in some "off paper kiloware" so there is no clue there. I had
considered a Parcel cancel - but it is no way a "post office" cancel.

Curiouser and curiouser said the white rabbit?

Thanks all for your input !

Malcolm






 




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