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Esperanto Yugoslavia, C55. One of the most valued recent (1953)
stamps of Yugoslavia.
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Grbusa, first stamp of Principality of Serbia (May 1866).
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This is Principality of Serbia #1 (1866) according to Michel catalog. An expensive item
from the so-called ``Vienna Printing.'' Engraved by Wincenz Katzler and printed on June 13, 1866 (12,000 stamps).
This stamp on cover is a major European rarity -- only half a dozen covers with cancelled 10 PARA stamp are known to exhist.
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``Death Mask'' of King Aleksandar II Obrenovic.
In a conspiracy in the night of 28 May 1903 army officers
assassinated King Aleksandar and Queen Draga Obrenovic of Serbia. The army organized a Coup d’Etat and
proclaimed Prince Peter I Karadjordjevic King of Serbia, which was confirmed by the National Parliament
on 15 June. On June 25th the existing but unissued staps showing the face of massacred king were
overprinted by black or blue coat of arms and on September 21st new staps featuring the new king and
his grandfather Karageorge were issued. The occasion was 100th anniversary of the first Serbian uprisal
against Turks. One of the stamps with denomination of 25p is shown (Scott #82).
When the stamp is inverted
Alexander's death mask can be seen. It is made up of parts of the faces of both Karageorge (Grandfather of Peter I)
and Peter I.
The face is circled to make it easy to see. Ghastly?
Eugene Mouchon, the stamp engraver from Paris, claimed the death mask was unintentional,
but many people believed that supporters of the Obrenovich dynasty deliberately
made rival Alexander's face appear on the stamps. Maybe Djoka Milovanovic, the stamp designer from Belgrade,
cast his maccabean farewell to the last Obrenovic.
It is interesting that although these stamps are inexpensive and can readily be found on
stamp markets --
two kinds of fairly good forgeries exhist. They can be recognized by comparison to the
original stamps and differ in paper thickness, color shades, and sharpness.
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"Grbusa", newspaper stamps of Principality of Serbia, 1866. (Scott #2a)
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Tete-Beche Milan Obrenovic, Principality of Serbia
This pair is believed to be purposely made for Ferrari's collection.
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Next to (the original Scott C3a, position 65/100) "Inverted Jenny", one of the most famous US Stamps. Photo taken at the Winter Show 2005 Atlanta: "I wish she was mine...(Wayne Campbell in Wayne's World)."
See the nice story about IJenny.
Just recently (July 2005) one IJenny was sold at an auction for about 0.6 Million to a private collector.
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