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Marshall Islands
28th May 1897
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Oceania | 6 |  |
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| Sc1 | xxx |
perf 13½x14½, no wmk
| Description | Date † | Scott | SG | Mi | Y&T | |
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| Stamps of Germany overprinted "“Marschall-Inseln” in black § | ||||||
| 3 pfennigs dark brown | 1899 | 1 | G1 | |||
| 3pf light brown | 1a | G1a | ||||
| 5pf green | 1899 | 2 | G2 | |||
| 10pf carmine | 3 | G3 | ||||
| 20pf ultra | 4 | G4 | ||||
| 25pf orange ‡ | 5 | |||||
| 50pf red-brown ‡ | 6 | |||||
† Scott [1] dates all of the first set to 1897. Gibbons [2] does nott
‡ Scott states that Sc5 and Sc6 were not issued, although some are known cancelled. Gibbons does not list them.
§ A second set of the same values was issued in 1899-1900 overprinted “Marshall-Inseln”, i.e. without the "c".
A group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. They became a German protectorate in 1885, then were under Japanese control from 1920 until 1947 when they became a United States Trust Territory.
They began to issue their own stamps in 1984.
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Republic |
| 1984 Sc31-34 SG1-4 |