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Post by captphil211 on Jan 12, 2024 2:23:13 GMT
Swiss sc 3o30, 2fr International Labor Board
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Post by Ted Talks Stamps on Jan 12, 2024 3:34:50 GMT
I like these bureau officials as a collecting area.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 13, 2024 1:41:39 GMT
I have only just started accumulating these. They are a baffling menagerie and can be confusing to the unprepared.
Alright, here's the lecture. Switzerland has extended franking privileges to a number of international non-governmental organizations over the years. Scott gives them subsidiary numbers under the Official Stamps heading, after federal officials and stamps for the WW1-era War Board of Trade. The Scott numeration gets very confusing very quickly, and I don't have the words to explain it. You'll see.
At any rate, the organizations are: -The League of Nations 1922-1944 2o -The International Labor Bureau 1923- 3o -The International Bureau of Education 1944-1960 4o -The World Health Organization 1950- 5o -The International Organization for Refugees 1950 6o -United Nations European Office 1960-1963 7o -The World Meteorological Organization 1956-1973 8o -International Bureau of the UPU 1957- 9o -The International Telecommunications Union 1958- 10o -The World Intellectual Property Organization 1982-85 11o
Overprinted Swiss stamps were used until about 1950. Catalog values are all over the place, but these stamps really are in the back of the back of the book. Finding stamps that are actually postally used will be a chore.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 13, 2024 2:00:12 GMT
Switzerland 3o14, 30c for Intl. Labor Board, 1923.
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Post by Ted Talks Stamps on Jan 13, 2024 2:00:46 GMT
Complicating it more is the fact that mint stamps for League of Nations, and Intl Labor Bureau are not valued by Scott because mint stamps were not available to the public (I wonder how many found there way out, anyway), and that many used values in Scott are for CTOs making it anyone's guess as to a fair market value for postally used. And do these CTO cancels follow the usual pattern of corner cancels and clear text, or how do you discern CTO cancels?
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 13, 2024 3:03:02 GMT
My rule of thumb print has been the messier, the better. With the older stamps, if you can see a date, then you've got at least half of the postmark and that is more than you'll normally get with CTOs. Also, if the postmark is noticeably over- or under-inked, that's good. Given that reasoning, my first stamp may well be CTO or favor cancelled while I'm certain my second stamp is postally used.
I have seen only a couple of more recent officials that were cancelled and I think they were probably from FDCs.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 14, 2024 0:14:44 GMT
Switzerland sc 3o9, 20c red violet on buff, 1923, used. As Ted mentioned, all of the League of Nations official stamps as well as International Labor Bureau stamps until 1939 were "not made available to the public unused," according to the note in Scott. This one is quite messy, and to my mind it's most likely this was postslly used.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 14, 2024 0:21:34 GMT
Switzerland sc 2o10, 10c violet on buff, League of Nations, 1931. Surface mar at top.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 14, 2024 0:27:24 GMT
Switzerland sc 3o105-08, set for Intl. Labor Board, 1975.
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Post by captphil211 on Jan 14, 2024 0:32:19 GMT
Switzerland sc 5o25, 10fr green on cream, World Health Organization, 1948, mnh.
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