Dear fellow members


From an old time collection, there are several items that I cannot find in any on-line source. I would be very grateful for any assistance in determining anything about the items scanned and added above. Especially of interest to me are whether there are any catalogue reference specifically mentioning each of the items below. I have more newspaper stamps with perforation abnormalities available for scanning, on request.

Thank you and kind regards.

Hallo @IndoStocks Paul,

Willkommen bei uns im Forum.

Die oberen beiden Bilder die du zeigst, sind Ausschnitte von Ganzsachen-Umschlägen.
Oben 10 Kreuzer Wertstempel von 1861 (U3) mit Stempel Pesth.
Darunter Wertstempel der Ausgabe 1863 (mit Stempel Hohenberg?), eine genauere Bestimmung Ausgabe ist mit einem Ausschnitt nicht möglich.
Lose (nicht auf Brief oder Karte aufgeklebte) Wertstempel-Ausschnitte werden im europäischen Raum als kaum sammelwürdig betrachtet und haben nur sehr geringen Wert.
Eventuell sammelwürdig sind die Ausschnitte für Stempelsammler, doch auch die hier verwendeten Abstempelungen sind nur zum Teil abgeschlagen und wie ich meine nicht wirklich selten.

Unten zeigst du einen Viererblock der 45 Heller Zeitungsmarke Mi. 305 von 1921 „Merkurkopf“.
Diese Briefmarken wurden ungezähnt ausgegeben. Der Katalogwert ist nur ein paar Cent. Es gibt von der Ausgabe sehr viele Privatzähnungen, diese verdienen nur einen Aufschlag, wenn sie auf einem Poststück erhalten sind.
Vorsicht, dein Viererblock scheint Stockflecken (eine Pilzinfektion) zu haben.

Herzliche Sammlergrüße
Gerhard

Hello Gerhard

Thank you very much for the interest and time you spent assisting me with my questions.

Appreciate your honesty in explaining to me why these items are of low value. These looked like the most interesting items from many of my father's stock books which he took around with him to the various stamp clubs in Vienna until 1939.

From what I can see anything that he priced up was valued at around 1 RM or less. In his entire collection there were only a few Dutch stamps and some partly complete King Edward VII & King George V sets from the Falkland Islands that are a little scarcer.

Have weighed up breaking these items up but I decided, not really for monetary reasons, to sell them at low prices into the market here in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. I used to live in Australia prior to moving here and the philatelic market is not doing so great there. As probably elsewhere in the "Western" world stamp collectors and dealers (!) seem to be ageing and little in terms of younger collectors are entering the hobby. This is very different in Indonesia and I could sell (mostly) older definitives and older/newer commemoratives all day long at €0.03 or so each. This may seem hardly anyone's while but ten years ago few people here were interested in foreign paper money and foreign non-NL coins (my main business) and now there is quite good demand.

Have come off-topic Gerhard, sorry. Appreciate your notice about the possible fungi attack on the stamps. This is due to difficult storage conditions over the years. Not here. My office is airconditioned during the day.

Regards!