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Batum
Friday April 4, 1919
Imperforate, no watermark, lithography.
| Description |
Scott |
SG |
Mi |
Y&T |
| 5 kopek green |
1 |
1 |
|
|
| 10 kopek ultramarine |
2 |
2 |
|
|
| 50 kopek yellow |
3 |
3 |
|
|
| 1 rubel red brown |
4 |
4 |
|
|
| 3 rubels violet |
5 |
5 |
|
|
| 5 rubels brown |
6 |
6 |
|
|
British troops occupied Batum fom the end of WW1. In 1921 it became an autonomous republic within Georgia.
These stamps have been forged extensively. The relatively low price is due in
part to the abundance of forgeries on the market. Genuine stamps are quite rare,
but it is fairly easy to detect a forgery.
The following characteristics only apply to the kopek values.
The rubel values have other, much less obvious, differences.
Seven perls instead of six in top row.
|
|
| Genuine, six perls. |
Forgery, seven perls. |
The middle two branches.
|
|
| Genuine, point to the left. |
Forgery, up or to the right. |
| FI ref: 489 |
Page credit: JA |
| Page created 19 Feb 2014 |
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11-Jul-2017 |
