Australia: Seaside #187 / VFU / 6p Nurse, Sailor, Soldier & Aviator

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Australia Stamp: 6p Nurse, Sailor, Soldier & Aviator

SPECIFICATIONS:
     Minkus: Australia #247  Perforation: 13.5x13  Colour: chocolate
     Scott: Australia #187  Perforation: 13.5x13  Colour: chocolate
     Seaside: Australia #187  Perforation: 13.5x13  Colour: chocolate
     Year of Issue: 1940
     Denomination: 6p
     Printing Type: engr

Australia may be referred to with the following: australian.

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Welthungerhilfe

(German) World Hunger Relief

China, North

Provinces of Chahar, Hopeh, Shansi and Suiyuan.

Tyrkiske skipspost

(Norwegian) Turkish ship mail (ship post).

Ankunft, Ank

(German) arrival.

Lietuvos Pasta

Lithuania Post.

Pre-stamp cover

Mail before the introduction of postage stamps in the place of origin.

Verkehrs-Anstalt Merkur

Local, Duren, Germany, 1895-97.

Postat Shqiptare

Albania.

Great Bitter Lake Association (GBLA)

Stamps issued by ships trapped in Suez Canal after the seven days war, June 1967.

J.R.B.Pst.Exp.

Jerbane Post Expedition (Danish) Railway Post Office.

Západni Samoa

(Czech) Western Samoa.

Simmons, Dr. M. A.

US private die medicine proprietary stamp.

Hadhramaut

Southern Arabia, now part of Yemen; 1886: under British protection, as part of the crown colony of Aden; included Qu'aiti State in Hadhramaut, Qu'aiti State of Shihr and Mukalla, the Mahra Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra, and the Kathiri State of Seiyun, 1891: mails passed through forwarding agents in Aden, 1937, April 22: Post office opened at Mukalla, dependent on Aden, 1937-42: stamps of Aden used, 1939: postal union for protected states made any stamps valid in any of the countries, 1942, July: first stamps issued, Qu'aiti State of Shihr and Mukalla, 1955: inscription on the Aden protective state of Qu'Aiti, 1955; became Hadramaut.

Costa Atlantica C

(Spanish) overprint on stamps of Nicaragua for use in province of Cabo Gracias A Dios, 1907.

Remitente

(Spanish) sender

Obrestez

(Russian) see : Specimen.

Carmona

City in Spain, Spanish Civil War local post, Nationalist forces, 1936-38.

Gorochow

German Hilfpost, Ukraine local, 1944.

Afwijking(en)

(Dutch) variet(ies).

Kopftype

(German) head type.

Dyp fiolett

(Norwegian) deep violet (color).

Congo, People's Republic

Country in western Africa, between Angola and Gabon.

Official name of Postal Administration: Société des Postes et de l'Epargne du Congo
Currency: 100 centimes = 1 franc
1886, Jan. 1: joined the UPU.
1910-pre: part of French Congo.
1910: declared a separate colony, joined with Gabon, Ubangi-Shari and Chad Territories.
1934: incorporated as French Equatorial Africa.
1958-pre: joined with other colonies to form French Equatorial Africa.
1958, Nov. 28: became member state of the French Community.
1959: No.1, 25 francs, brown-claret, first stamp issued.
1960, Aug. 15: independence within French Community as the Congo Republic.
1960: first air mail stamp issued.
1961, Dec. 4: first postage due stamp issued.
1962, Apr. 7: first semipostal stamp issued.
1968: first official stamp issued.
1970, Jan. 3: became the People's Republic of the Congo.
1970, July 20: No. 1, 15 francs green, ocher and red-brown.
1970, Nov. 28: stamps issued as People's Republic of the Congo.
1990: name changed back to Republic of the Congo.

Haute Silesie

Upper Silesia, 1920-22.

Col.

(French) ^fcolonies}.

Abkürzungen

(German) abbreviations.

Livligviolet

(Danish) bright violet (color).

Pergamynbriefumschlag

(German) glassine envelope.

Kookaburra bird

1913, 1932, bird known as the "laughing Jackass" on stamps of Australia. Kop: arms in oval, Finland.

Blegblå

(Danish) pale blue, light blue (color).

Healthy India

India charity label.

Oesterreich

Alone or as an overprint on stamps of Germany for Austria.

Republique du Niger

(French) Republic of Niger.

Prøvetrykk

(Norwegian) printing proof, proof.

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