Postage Stamp - Ceres 1919-26 - Ceres - Mozambique 1921 - Michel Mozambique 156yC - 158yC - my hobby

Postage Stamp - Ceres 1919-26 - Ceres - Mozambique 1921 - Michel Mozambique 156yC - 158yC - my hobby.

Greetings friends!

For philatelists, the image on a postage stamp plays a secondary role.

The most important thing is the state of the postage stamp and its circulation.

Namely, these two factors influence the cost of a postage stamp.

At times, philately can seem boring.

An example of this would be the task of collecting postage stamps from the colonial era issued in Portugal.

Over the years, they printed identical postage stamps, which depicted the pagan goddess of agriculture, or the harvest and fertility, Ceres.

It is strange that the Catholic Church of Portugal allowed the image of the ancient Reim goddess to be applied to its postage stamps.

It can be assumed that by distributing their postage stamps on the territory of the colonies, they wanted to show that Portugal is very democratic in its choice of religion.

But, in any case, this is strange.

On these stamps, only the color changed, and the name of the colony, in this case, when we look at the postage stamp, which was in use in Mozambique in 1921, we see the inscription - "Mozambique".

I really like the quality of postage stamps issued on the African continent, but this is not the case.

These postage stamps were printed on poor quality paper, I struggle to pick it up.

It looks more like a paper napkin than a postage stamp.

But, nevertheless, I am glad that I have this postage stamp in my collection.

She's special.

The fact is that there is a printing defect.

The image of the postage stamp is displaced upward and extends beyond the teeth.

This defect makes this postage stamp unique.

The price I indicated below is typical for stamps without defects.

I am at a loss to say how much a postage stamp from my collection might cost.

Defects in postage stamps are what philatelists are very often looking for. Uniqueness is a rare quality of postage stamps that appears when printing errors.

Description of the postage stamp:

Type: Postage Stamp.
Country: Mozambique.
Subject: #Agriculture, #Harvest, #Mythology, #Africa, #Portugal.
Series: Ceres 1919-26.
Name: Ceres.
Denomination of a postage stamp: 1½ Mozambican centavo.
Michel's Mozambique catalog code: 156yC - 158yC.
Episode release date: 1921.
Perforation: 12 x 11½.
Postage stamp size: 15 x 14 mm.
Printing technology: Typography.
Circulation: ?.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.27 - $ 0.31.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: ?.
Photo: original from @barski collection.

Clean postage stamp:

Important!

1. Please note that the cost of shipping postage stamps to other countries can be many times more expensive than the postage stamp itself, approximately $ 5.5.

2. I see that it is not profitable to purchase one postage stamp if, suddenly, you need to replenish your collection. It is always more profitable to purchase the entire series, and, surplus, to change, or sell.

3. If you decide to buy a postage stamp online, be careful. sometimes sellers use stock images. But this option is unacceptable. You need to see exactly the product that you are buying.

4. If you are afraid that the postage stamp sellers will want to deceive you, you are doing the right thing, do not doubt it.

5. To get started with this hobby, buy a good magnifying glass, tweezers with flat and thin edges and a stockbook for postage stamps, they will come in handy.

6. When buying postage stamps, pay special attention to the back of the postage stamp. The adhesive layer must not be damaged.

7. There is such an expression - How many people, so many opinions, this also applies to sellers of postage stamps. Each of them believes that his postage stamp is in perfect condition, but only you yourself can find the perfect postage stamp for yourself.

8. Sometimes, a small, white scrap of paper with a round stamp on it and a number inscribed in the center circle can be a very valuable postage stamp from the days when postage stamps were not printed.

9. The cost of a postage stamp is determined by supply and demand, but usually in catalogs you can see the estimated cost of a postage stamp in Pounds Sterling.

10. In terms of quality, postage stamps can be divided into three groups: used postage stamps that were pasted on and removed from the envelope, canceled postage stamps that were canceled at the post office, by order and sent for sale, and clean, uncanceled postage stamps. As you can imagine, these three types of postage stamps, their conditions, greatly affect their value.

To be continued.

You can see the development of the story of my postage stamp collection on my Leofinance blog

I edited a photo in the program PhotoDirector, which I also installed on my smartphone.

Author @barski
Ukraine

For my publications, I do not use stock photographs, it is fundamentally important for me to use photographs that I have made with my own hands for publication and I can name them - authorial work.

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