In my dotage I have acquired a taste for those silly special imperfs from the French Community. My father would have said, "Son, those aren't real stamps. Leave those alone." Well, I've always been a bad boy. Here are some from my current favorite, New Caledonia.
Reviving this... German Office in China 45a. As much as I detest expertizer/owner backstamps, this one is real from Ronald Steuer (BPP) along with two other marks.. I don't collect this area so just listed it.
BPP marks are cool with me. What I like is that there is a code associated with the positioning of the on the stamp to indicate the condition, so the stamp cannot be altered after it is stamped. https://www.bpp.de/en/expertising-rules/
It always amazes me when I run across an entire country's stamp issues that I can scan in one pass. The Allenstein Plebiscite stamps...all of them. There was a whole lot of shakin' going on back then!
It is amazing to me though. Just a tiny window in history that few even know about. Ask someone these days what a plebiscite is and see if they know. I dare ya!
Here ya go the direct vote of all the members of an electorate on an important public question such as a change in the constitution. "the administration will hold a plebiscite for the approval of constitutional reforms"
In a plebiscite, voters are asked not to choose between alternate regimes or proposals but to confirm or reject the legitimacy of a certain form of government or course of action. Plebiscites are seen as a way for a government to go directly to the people, bypassing intermediaries such as political parties. After the Revolution of 1789, the plebiscite was popular in France because it was seen as an expression of popular sovereignty. In 1804, a plebiscite made Napoleon emperor.
Isn't a plebiscite something you catch from eating uncooked pork? Or maybe from drinking water in Chicago? I've heard it is also a cause of the Mumbai mudslides.
Yes! They evidently were minted in very limited quantities....just one or two ever made. They made at the Soothsayer & Seer Mint and Chocolate Factory. They were visionaries in the field of minting, and chocolates. None of the chocolates are said to have survived over the ages but like last year's candy canes, the minted product survived all these years.
Maybe they are legitimate genuine authentic replicas put out by the Franklin Press. Regardless, I couldn't help testing out your theory, Greg...... dark chocolate with a hint of orange peel. Overall, not too bad.
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Here are some from my current favorite, New Caledonia.
Scott 557-58 from 1987.
C80 from 1971, the One Ton Yacht Cup.
C168 from 1980, the man himself, Gen. de Gaulle.
https://www.hipstamp.com/store/the-bentley-collection
https://www.bpp.de/en/expertising-rules/
"the administration will hold a plebiscite for the approval of constitutional reforms"
Two Plebiscites walk into a bar...
US 611 arrow block mnh. Yeah, that's right. I gotta thing about imperfs.
want to try/