The stamps are scarce to rare, but forgeries, of which at least 12 complete sets are known, are quite common. Furthermore, genuine stamps with forged or bogus cancellations are known to exist.
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In 1859 the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez set up its own postal system to convey administrative mail between its work sites and its offices in Alexandria, Port Said, Ismailia and Suez. Later, in 1860, it formed an agreement with the Posta Europea for the conveyance of its mail to the nearest Posta Europea office: Damietta, Suez or Zagazig.
This arrangement ran until 1865, when the Posta Europea was taken over by the Egyptian Government, after which the company resumed operation of its own postal system. Carriage of the mail was free for personal and business mail of company employees and other residents of the Canal area. In November 1867, to cover the cost of this service, it was decided to introduce a charge for the carriage of private mail, to take effect from July 1, 1868.
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The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, Background
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, The National Assembly Issue
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, The Yasinia Local Trident Overprints
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, The Uzhhorod Provisional Overprints
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, The National Council Definitive Issues
Cancellations
Figure 30. The NRZU provisional cancel
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The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, Background
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, The National Assembly Issue
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, The Yasinia Local Trident Overprints
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, The Uzhhorod Provisional Overprints
The National Council Definitive Issues
Like most overprinted issues, the Uzhhorod Provisionals were merely a temporary expedient. This fact was noted by the NRZU and preparations were soon made to produce subsequent issues using local resources.
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The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, Background
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, The National Assembly Issue
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, The Yasinia Local Trident Overprints
The Uzhhorod Provisional Overprints
Considerable discrepancies occur among catalogs as to how many basic Hungarian stamp releases were overprinted by the NZRU. Some compilations list all of the dozens of revenue stamps that were prepared. Others ignore most of these stating that they were essays and therefore never put into postal circulation. No two listings are the same and this has caused a great deal of confusion among philatelists.
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The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, Background
The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, The National Assembly Issue
The Yasinia Local Trident Overprints
Hearkening back to 1918-19 when trident overprints were the norm on stamps of newly independent Ukraine, some citizens of the town of Yasinia decided to create their own version during the time of Carpatho-Ukraine’s short-lived independence. On 14 March 1939, 43 Czechoslovak stamp issues and two souvenir sheets were overprinted with a rubber handstamp showing a trident (Figure 5; designated Type I, it is rather similar to Odesa VIa or some of the Podillia trident overprints from Ukraine 20 years earlier). Still on that same day or on the following day, 39 Czechoslovak stamp varieties were overprinted with a distinctive Type II metal device that not only displayed a trident, but also the words “СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ!” (Glory to Ukraine!) in a half circle under the trident (Figure 6). Some postal cards were also overprinted with either the Type I or Type II tridents. All of the overprinting was carried out with black ink.
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The stamps of Carpatho-Ukraine, 1939-1945, Background
The National Assembly Issue
Early in 1939, plans were drawn up to hold the First Carpatho-Ukrainian National Assembly (Soim) in Khust. The date of 2 March was agreed upon and a special regional stamp, with appropriate commemorative stationery and cancellations, was designed to mark the occasion (Figure 3). The 3-koruny blue stamp, depicting the wooden church at Yasinia, was delivered to Khust by the beginning of February.
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by Jay Carrigan and Ingert Kuzych
Background
For centuries, the area of southwestern Ukraine known as Transcarpathia, Ruthenia, or Carpathian Ukraine was part of the Habsburg Empire rather than czarist Russia. Thus, prior to 1939, the stamps of Austria, Hungary, and then Czechoslovakia had been used in Transcarpathia. Russian or Ukrainian stamps were never employed.
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ZIP code
The U.S. numerical post code used to speed and mechanize mail handling and delivery. The letters stand for Zoning Improvement Plan.
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ZIP block
U.S. marginal marking block with the selvage bearing the image of the “”Mr. ZIP”" cartoon character and/or an inscription urging the use of ZIP code. This first appeared on U.S. marginal selvage in 1964. Typically a ZIP block is a block of four stamps.
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