| Marking | Description * | @ |
I C  |
(with skull): France: Anti-Automobile Vignette - listed by Bourdi as an Anti-Automobile vignette, issued in 1974 in 20 different colors [rs] |
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| I GILDA |
(overprint on stamps of Iceland): restoring postal validity (1902) {In Validity} |
| I POLSKA WYSTAWA MAREK |
(overprint on stamps of Poland): semipostals {White Cross Society} |
| I. |
(pre-adhesive handstamp): British {IRELAND ISLE (Bermuda)} (1865) |
| I. |
(pre-adhesive handstamp): French (in square or oval) {Inconnu (or) Inspection} (on letters incompletely addressed) (1788-98) |
| I. A. |
(overprint on stamps of South Australia): officials (1868-74) {Immigration Agent} |
| I.C.I.S. POSTAGE |
International Council of Independent States: "..founded on 1st June 1984. It's declared objective is to act as a 'United Nations' of the smaller countries of the Fifth World." - World Headquarters: P.O. Box 876, Auckland, New Zealand, @,
and probably as much hoax (+-) as it's source (same PO Box) :
Occussi-Ambeno {q.v.} [data] {q.v.} and other of it's
'micronations' or 'states':
(Kemp Land,
Sedang,
Tui Tui,
Aldabra,
Occussi-Ambeno,
Chyan (@ (known stamps: chyan-50897573.jpg, ref. 1, ref. 2),
Free Vinland,
Karenni (no known stamps?: ref. data 1, ref. data2, @),
Liegerland,
Bokhara,
Raoul,
Port Maria,
Antarctic Confederation,
Upper Yafa,
Muggy ,
Terra Candella,
Cryonica,
Fantippo,
Nova Arcadia,
Aramoana,
Whangamomona,
Laré - c.2009)
(& from flags page; not on regular list:
Bounty Island,
Monte Bello Islands,
Republic of Witti,
c.2003).
All, apparently from the "prolific New Zealander Bruce Henderson:" (actually Bruce Grenville [Ref.; JCM]).
("Henderson's {Grenville's} output spans more than three decades and encompasses an entire alternative universe of artistamp countries."
[data,
data]
[info, aj]
('404': http://get.to/icis/) [data;w/imgs
via zz]) |
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| I. E. |
(overprint on stamps of South Australia): officials (1868-74) {Intestate Estates} |
| I. S. |
(overprint on stamps of South Australia): officials (1868-74) {Inspector of Sheep} |
| I.B. |
West Irian (1970) |
| I.E.F. |
(overprint on stamps of India): military stamps {India Expeditionary Force} (1914) |
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| I.E.F. D |
(overprint on stamps of Turkey): Mesopotamia (1919) |
| I.G. |
(pre-adhesive handstamp): French {Inconnu (or) Inspection Garde} (on undelivered letters retained for a period) (1790) |
| I.J.P.O. |
(pre-adhesive handstamp): Japanese {Imperial Japanese Post Office} |
| I.M. |
(pre-adhesive handstamp): British {INDIA Mail} |
| I.O.V.R. |
Romania: postal tax stamps (1948) |
| I.P.N. |
(overprint on stamps of India): fiscal commission on due notes {Indian Postal Note} |
| I.R. |
(overprint on stamps of U.S.): {'Internal Revenue' issues} |
| I.R. |
(pre-adhesive handstamp): Italian {Imperiale Reale} |
| I.R. OFFICIAL |
(overprint on stamps of Great Britain): officials (1882-1904) {Inland Revenue} |
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| I.S.P.P. |
(pre-adhesive handstamp): Italian {Italia Servizio Publico} (1862-66) |
| I.ST |
(pre-adhesive handstamp): British {Ipswich Station} |
| I.T. |
(pre-adhesive handstamp): French {Transit par l Italie} |
| ICC |
(overprint on stamps of India): {Int. Commission on Indo-China} (1965-68) |
| IDAR |
India- Idar (1939-44) |
| IDROVOLANTE |
(overprint on stamps of Italy): hydroplane airmail (1917) {By Hydroplane} |
| IERUSALEM |
(overprint on stamps of Russia): Russia- Offices in Turkey- Jerusalem (1909-10) |
| IKAPIAΣ |
Icaria |
| ILE ROUAD |
Rouad |
| ILE ROUAD |
(overprint on stamps of French Levant): Rouad (1916) |
| ILES WALLIS ET FUTUNA |
Wallis & Futuna Islands |
| ILES WALLIS ET FUTUNA |
(overprint on stamps of New Caledonia): Wallis & Futuna Islands (1920-24) |
| ILHAS |
(pre-adhesive handstamp): Portuguese {Islands} Put on letters from the Azores at Lisbon (1845) |
| IMPER. REG POSTA AUSTR |
Austria: Offices in Turkey (1883-86) |
| IMPERIAL BRITISH EAST AFRICA COMPANY |
British East Africa |
| IMPERIO COLONIAL PORTUGUES (no colony name) |
Portuguese Africa: postage dues (1945) |
| IMPERIO DO BRASIL |
Brazil (1887-88) {Empire of Brazil} |
| IMPERIO MEXICANO |
Mexico (1866) {Empire of Mexico} |
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| IMPERIUM |
Queen Victoria essays produced by De la Rue & Company Ltd. as samples with no specific country named |
| IMPRESOS |
Cuba, Philippines: newspaper stamps {Prints} |
| IMPRIME |
(overprint) Turkey: newspaper stamps {Printed} |
| IMPRIMES |
(overprint) Iran: newspaper stamps {Printed} |
| IMPTO DE GUERRA |
Spain: war tax stamps (1874-98) {War Tax} |
| IMPUESTO |
Chile: revenues (used as postage) {Tax} |
| IMPUESTO DE ENCOMIENDAS |
Uruguay: parcel posts |
| IMPUESTO DE GUERRA |
Spain: war tax stamps (1874-98) {War Tax} |
| INCHI YA ETAT DU KATANGA |
Katanga: rebellion against the Belgian Congo |
| INCHMARNOCH ISLAND |
United Kingdom- Scotland -Inchmarnoch Island Local Post (?): Rick asks, "Is this a modern (post-Rosen catalogue) Scottish local? How many others are there?" [rs]
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| iNCi YIL DONUMU |
Turkey |
| INDE |
French India |
| INDIA |
(with Portuguese or words REIS, REAL, TANGAS or RUPIA): Portuguese India |
| INDIA PORT. |
Portuguese India (1871-86) |
| INDIA PORTUGUEZA |
Portuguese India (1887-95) |
| INDIE |
French India |
| INDO-CHINE |
Indo-China |
| INDONESIA |
(not preceded by REPUBLIK): Netherlands Indies |
| INDONESIA REPUBLIK |
Indonesia |
| INDORE |
India- Indore (1904-47) |
| Industrielle Kriegs-wirtschaft |
(overprint on stamps of Switzerland): War Board of Trade |
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| Industrielle Kriegswirtschaft |
(overprint on stamps of Switzerland): {War Board of Trade} (unissued 1918 circular overprintt) |
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| INDUSTRIELLE KRIEGSWIRTSCHAFT |
Switzerland {War Board of Trade} officials (1918) |
| INHAMBANE |
(overprint on stamps of Mozambique): Inhambane (1894-95) |
| INKERI |
North Ingermanland (1920) |
| INLAND |
(on stamp with no country name): Liberia |
| INLAND STRIKE LETTER SERVICE |
(on stamps with no name): Great Britain. "... presumably a strike post from 1971, however the Rosen Catalogue (and other items in my collection) show the base stamp with thin, sans-serif letters (lower right). This one (upper right) has thicker, serifed letters. Is it a collectible variety, or a reprint / forgery?" [rs]. If it is any consolation, I have just obtained a pair ( within a collection) which are gum backed and rouletted. I am just as mystified. [Barry Gay c.2001] |
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| INSELPOST |
(overprint on military (parcel? cf. 'Deutsches Feldpost') stamps of Germany) {Island post} (used in Aegean Sea beginning of 20th century) |
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| INSTRUCAO D.L. No. 7 de 3-2-34 |
(overprint on war tax stamps of Portuguese India): Timor: postal tax stamps (1934-35) |
| INSTRUCCION |
Venezuela: fiscal stamps |
| INSTRUCCION SELLO PROVISIONAL CARUPANO 1902 |
Venezuela- Carupano (1902) |
| INSUFFICIENTLY PREPAID POSTAGE DUE |
Zanzibar (1931-33) |
| INTERIOR, DEPT. of the |
(with 'U' lower left / 'S' lower right): United States : Official (c.1873) [1847.com] |
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| INTERNATIONAL |
(Overprinted on stamps with no name): Great Britian (1971) cf.
INLAND STRIKE.. |
| Ion.Ple. |
(pre-adhesive handstamp): French {Inspection Postale (or) Principale} (on undelivered letters opened to discover sender name and address) (1790) |
| IONIKON KPATOΣ |
Ionian Islands {Ionian Government} |
| IRANIENNES |
Iran (1935-37) |
| IRAQ IN BRITISH OCCUPATION |
(overprint on stamps of Turkey): Mesopotamia (1918-22) |
| IRIAN BARAT |
West Irian (New Guinea) (1963-68) |
| ISLAND |
Iceland |
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| ISLAS DE JUAN FERNANDEZ |
Chile- Juan Fernandez Islands, also seeing general use (1910) |
| ISLAS GALAPAGOS |
Ecuader- Galapagos Islands |
| ISOLE ITALIANE DELL EGEO |
(overprint on stamps of Italy): Aegean Islands (1930-40) |
| ISOLE JONIE |
(overprint on stamps of Italy): Ionian Islands- Italian occupation (1941) |
| ISTRA SLOVENSKO PRIMORJE |
Yugoslavia: issues for Istria and the Slovene Coast (1946) |
| ISTRIA LITTORALE SLOVENO |
Yugoslavia: issues for Istria and the Slovene Coast (1946) |
| ITA-KARIALA |
(overprint on stamps of Finland): Karelia: Finnish military administration (1941-?) |
| ITALIA |
Italy |
| ITALIA OCCUPAZIONE MILITARE ITALIANA ISOLE CEFALONIA E ITACA |
(overprint on stamps of Greece): Ionian Islands- Italian occupation |
| ITALIAN SOMALILAND |
Somalia |
| ITALIANE |
Italy |
| ITALIANO |
Italy |
| IZMIR HIMAYEIETFAL CEMIYETI |
Turkey: tax stamps (1933) |
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