CRETE (KPHTH) Miscellaneous

Return To Catalogue - Crete 1900 issue and overprints - Crete 1905 onwards - Austrian post offices in Crete - Russian post offices - 'La Canea' on Italy - Greece

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Official stamps

1908 Official stamps, inscription 'KOINOGOIHSEWS DIKOGRAFWN MIKRODIAFORAS', various desings

  10 l brown
  30 l blue

These stamps have perforation 14.

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Overprinted 'ELLAS' (small size)

  10 l brown
  30 l blue

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Overprinted 'ELLAS' (large size)

  10 l brown
  30 l blue

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

FISCAL STAMPS

Various overprints on postage stamps, examples:

Other examples

The value 'PAR.10' as well as the signature seems to be handprinted.

POSTAGE DUE STAMPS

1900 Posthorn

  1 l red
  5 l red
  10 l red
  20 l red
  40 l red
  50 l red
  1 D red
  2 D red

These stamps have perforation 14.

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Surcharged

  '1 DRACMH' on 1 D red

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Overprinted 'ELLAS' (1908 small size)

  1 l red
  5 l red
  10 l red
  20 l red
  40 l red
  50 l red
  1 D red
  2 D red
  '1 DRACMH' on 1 D red

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Overprinted 'ELLAS' (1910 large size)

  1 l red
  5 l red
  10 l red
  20 l red
  40 l red
  50 l red
  1 D red
  2 D red

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Overprinted 'ELLAS PROSWRINON'

  1 l red
  2 l on 20 l red (2 different overprints exist)

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Overprinted 'EGANASTASIS 1922' and value

  5 l on 5 l red
  5 l on 10 l red
  10 l on 20 l red
  10 l on 40 l red
  50 l on 50 l red
  50 l on 1 D red
  50 l on 1 D on 1 D
  2 D on 2 D red

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Overprinted 'EPANASTASIS 1922' (Revolution 1922), 'ELLAS' (small) and value
  5 l on 5 l red
  5 l on 10 l red
  10 l on 20 l red

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Overprinted 'EPANASTASIS 1922' (Revolution 1922), 'ELLAS' (large) and value
  5 l on 5 l red
  5 l on 10 l red
  10 l on 20 l red
  50 l on 50 l red
  50 l on 1 D red
  2 D on 2 D red

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Postage stamps during during a revolt in 1905

1905 Square with inscription 'PROSWPINH KUBERNHSIS KRHTHS TAC UPHR.', issued by the Therisson rebels

Type 1: Circle with woman figure in other colour inside the stamp

(Reduced sizes, could be forgeries)

(Could be a forgery)

  5 l green and red
  10 l red and green
  20 l red and blue
  50 l violet and green
  1 D blue and red

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Type 2: map inside the stamp

(Sorry, no image available yet)

  5 l green
  10 l red
  20 l blue

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

Forgeries of all the above stamps exist! According to 'Focus on Forgeries' by V.E.Tyler, at least four different forgeries exist (one made by the forger Fournier). The right hand side of the island in the image should have a double outline. Cancels with the outer rim consisting of two lines are forgeries.

(forgery)

Fournier forgeries as taken from a Fournier Album of Philatelic Forgeries (reduced sizes). The 'T's have too short bottom parts in these forgeries (source: Serrane guide).

Fournier forgery taken from a Fournier Album.

1905 New designs, Woman (symbolising Crete as a slave) and King George

Woman  

Probably genuine

  5 l orange
  10 l grey
  20 l violet
  50 l blue

King George

  1 D orange and violet
  2 D green and brown

The perforation of the above stamps is 11 1/2.

vc = very common
c  = common
*  = not so common
** = uncommon

*** = very uncommon
R   = rare
RR  = very rare
RRR = extremely rare

These stamps are known to have been reprinted (privately) and forged. More information can be found in “GREECE. A collection of forgeries.” by Rienk M. Feenstra. Imperforate stamps are always reprints according to this source. Even imperforate stamps with inverted heads exist for the Drachme values. In the Lepta values, there is a white dash between the letters 'Y' and L in the word 'DOULH'

Forgeries
In the genuine stamps and reprints, in the Lepta values, there is a single solid line below the word 'KYBEPNHSIS'. In the forgeries, this line is doubled.
In the Drachme values, the line surrounding the top inscription is double on the right hand side in the genuine stamps, in the forgeries, this line is single.
These forgeries also exist without dividing lines. Genuine stamps have dividing lines between the individual stamps. Forgeries have perforations ranging from 11 to 14 1/2 x 13 according to the Feenstra book.

Left probably reprint, right forgery.

Forgeries, with "FAUX" overprint

In the forgery the right hand upper side consists of 2 lines only (one thick outer frameline and one thinner one around the upper text); in the genuine stamps, there is one thick frameline and two thinner lines surrounding the smaller rectangler. The shading behind the head is also badly done in this forgery.

These stamps were only valid inside Crete and used by the insurgants.

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