Australia: Seaside #177 / VFU / 5sh Queen Elizabeth

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Australia Stamp: 5sh Queen Elizabeth

SPECIFICATIONS:
     Minkus: Australia #234  Perforation: 13.5  Colour: dull red brown
     Scott: Australia #177  Perforation: 13.5  Colour: dull red brown
     Seaside: Australia #177  Perforation: 13.5  Colour: dull red brown
     Year of Issue: 1938
     Denomination: 5sh
     Printing Type: engr

Australia may be referred to with the following: australian.

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Interesting Facts, Definitions, Translations

Paine's Express

Parcel delivery firm serviced Boston and Marblehead; used labels; 1891

V.A.

Valuator and Auctioneer, South Australia official overprint, 1868-74.

Servicio Centro Americano

(Spanish) "Central American Service" Nicaragua airmails

Brink's Chicago City Express

Local parcel express firm serviced Chicago area; used a corner card and stamps; 1859-1929.

Lip

Light impression of Plate No. (on USA Plate No. Blocks).

PL

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auction ^ftopical political}.
precedes the European postal code on addresses in Poland, such as PL-00391, Warsaw.

Russian Occupation of Crete

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Bid shielding

A situation where two bidders collude where one buyer bids low, the other buyer bids very high to scare off other potential bidders; seconds before the Internet auction ends, the high bid is withdrawn, and the partner wins the lot by default.

Electric Express Company

Parcel firm operated via electric trolleys, Portland, Ore. area; issued a stamp, year unknown.

Posta Prisionero de Guerra

(Spanish) prisoner of war mail.

Electronic return

US Postal Service term for return of undeliverable mail by electronic means with incorrect address, rather than physical return of the mailing piece, started in 2002.

Licitación sugerida

(Spanish) suggested bid (auction).

Stample

(German) "Stamp" newspaper stamps, Austria.

Negara Repoeblik Indonesia

Sumatra local post, Indonesia.

Bates Personal Service

United Kingdom strike local post, 1971.

Skatik(u)as

Currency unit in Lithuania.

C.L.N. Italia Posta Partigiana

(Italian) inscription for Parma, Italy, unissued, see C.L.N.

Cuadriculado

(Spanish) quadrille.

BA

Bosnia and Herzegovina, country code as used by UPU.

Stampigliare

(Italian) overprint.

Schilling

Currency unit in Austria, old German states.

Mac & Co's Dispatch

US local post, Fallsington-Morrisville, Pa.

Besættelse, Østrigsk

(Danish) Austrian occupation.

Durch Finnische Feldpost

(Finnish) via Finnish fieldpost.

Ankaufreis

(German) purchase price.

Svobodna Crna Gora

(Cyrillic) Free Montenegro, cinderella issue.

Papir, Almindeligt

(Danish, Norwegian) ordinary paper.

Papper, Randigt

(Swedish) laid paper.

AAMC

American Air Mail Catalog, USA.
Australian Air Mail Catalogue, Nelson Eustis.

Dicitura

(Italian) inscription.

H.M.S

Her/His Majesty's Ship, also used as a pre-adhesive postmark.

Paris 1937

With no colony name, France

Iles Salomon

(French) British Solomon Islands.

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