SERBIA Miscellaneous

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Postage due stamps

1866 Arms in a circle

  1 p green on red
  2 p brown on lilac

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
1 p	RR	RR	Exists in olive on red (paper white on back) and green on red (paper coloured on back)
2 p	RR	RR	Error: 2p green on red (RRR)

The Serrane guide states that there should be 77 pearls in these stamps, eleven horizontal lines on top and thirteen below. The genuine stamps are engraved.

3rd stamp in the first row of a sheet of 12 stamps (position 3) of the 1 pa and position 11.

Position 8 of the 2 pa

Position 11 and 12

Although forgeries exist with continuous background lines, this stamp with (almost) continuous background lines is genuine according to Jovan Velickovic.

These stamps were printed in blocks of 12 (3 rows of 4 stamps). They can each be indentified by the position on the plate (plating). For example the 3rd stamp in the first row of the 1 p has its left top corner damaged (see image above).

Forgeries, example:

The left and right sides of the arms almost touch the pearls in these forgeries.

Forgery with too many pearls in the circle and a bogus retangular cancel.

The next forgeries of are printed on the backside of some 5 c stamps of the 1879 issue Salvador:

Another primitive forgery. A similar forgery can be found on the Amphilex 2002 Exhibition sheet of Jovan Velickovic.

1895 Double headed eagle

  5 p lilac
  10 p blue
  20 p brown
  30 p green
  50 p red

The perforation on these stamps is either 13 x 13 1/2 or 11 1/2.

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
5 p	**	*	Error 5 p red: RR
10 p	*	*
20 p	***	***
30 p	c	*
50 p	*	*

I have seen 2 tete-beche stamps of the 20 p value, also a strip of 3 20 p stamps with the center one inverted (R).

I've seen an imperforate proof of the 20 p brown value.

1918 Arms of Serbia

  5 p red
  10 p green
  20 p brown
  30 p blue
  50 p brown

These stamps have perforation 11.

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
5 p	*	*	Also exists in lilac shade and brown shade
10 p	*	*
30 p	c	c
50 p	*	*

Later issues during World War II

Newspaper stamps

1912 Sitting woman

  1 p grey
  5 p green
  10 p orange
  15 p violet
  20 p yellow
  25 p blue
  30 p blue
  50 p brown
  1 D brown
  3 D red
  5 D grey

These stamps have perforation 11 1/2. A misprint 50 p yellow seems to exist (RR, I have never seen it). These stamps should have small black arms overprinted on it, however, they exist without this overprint (see the above 1 p stamp); according to the Serrane guide, those unoverprinted stamps are not official.

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
1 p to 25 p	**	**
30 p to 3 D	***	***
5 D	R	R
15 p	*	c

War Stamps

1917 Stamps of France were overprinted 'POSTES SERBES' for use of the Serbian post office in Corfu (14 values ranging from 1 c to 1 F), on the smaller stamps the overprint is applied on two stamps.

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
All values	R to RR	R

1917 The same overprint 'POSTES SERBES' was also applied to stamps of Greece of 1917 (1911 stamps with additional 'crown and ET' overprint). The values 5 l, 10 l and 20 l were used in this way. The overprint is applied on two stamps.

Value of the stamps
vc = very common c = common * = not so common ** = uncommon		*** = very uncommon R = rare RR = very rare RRR = extremely rare
Value	Unused	Used	Remarks
All values	RR	R

Postal Stationery

(Example, 10 p lilac)

Fiscal stamps

In 1881 the following fiscal stamps were issued:

In this and similar designs exist: 10 p blue and black, 10 p blue and brown (1882), 20 p green and black, 20 p black (1884), 25 p lilac and black, 30 p red and black, 1 D red and black, 3 D brown and green, 5 D blue and brown and 10 D brown and red. These and similar stamps also exist with a circular overprint (in blue, red or black).

Furthermore I have seen the values: 5 pa violet (with red overprint) 10 pa orange (with and without overprint), 10 pa red (with overprint), 10 pa blue (with overprint), 10 pa violet (without overprint), 1 Dinar red (with overprint) and 5 Dinar blue (without overprint).

(Reduced size)

Other design:

In the above design were issued in 1906: 5 p lilac (brown) and black, 10 p yellow and red, 20 p lilac and green, 20 p grey and brown (1911), 20 p orange and red (1913), 50 p brown and orange (1913), 1 D brown and orange, 3 D dark blue and blue (1911), 5 D brown and green, 5 D yellow and red (1913), 10 D brown (1913), 10 D brown and black, 10 D violet and lilac (1911), 20 D red and lilac (1911), 50 D blue and green (1911), 100 D brown (1911), 100 D brown and black (1913).

Other fiscal stamps