Posta Touva stamps not in Scott's?

[William Gourley]

Resurrected stamp collection from youth (50 yr.. ago) has a set of
rectangular and triangular stamps I have marked as "Tana Tuva," but I
cannot find them in Scott's catalog. They picture animals, airplanes,
horseback riders, and a suited-and-tied asiatic-appearing man. Any
information about where they are listed in Scott's (or are they bogus?)?

William K. Gourley
'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free"

[Alex McAuley]

I'm not sure about their Scott's listing, but I was able to do a quick web
search and turned up http://www.fotuva.org/index.html and for the Stamps of
Tuva http://www.fotuva.org/misc/stamps.html

Hope this helps,
Alex
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[Bob Harper]

Dear William,
I can not help you with Scott catalog's but Stanley Gibbons lists them under
Tuva. The say "A province lying between the Sajan and Tannu Ola range.
Formerly known as North Mongolia and Tannu. Tuva was incorporated into the
U.S.S.R. on 11th October 1944."
I hope that this helps.
Bob

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: Resurrected stamp collection from youth (50 yr.. ago) has a set of

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[Kentdave]

The stamps are listed in Scotts, but with a different spelling -- "Tannu Tuva."
They are on page 300 of Volume 6 in my 2000 Catalogues, undoubtedly a different
page in another year's set. The most gaudy of the stamps are not listed, but
are mentioned in a box at the end of the listings with the simple observation
that they "appared in 1934 and 1935." Clearly they were produced soley for sale
to collectors.

[Rein Bakhuizen van den Brink]

I wouldn't be so harsh. As far as I can read Russian, the
book by S. Blechman " The postal history and postage stamps of Tuva"
they make a very interesting subject for philatelists...

I myself I'm very intrigued by the printing process the Moskovian Goznak plant
used for quite a lot of Sovjet stamps since the early thirties: fototypia,
and that includes a lot of Tuvan stamps as well.

gtx, Rein

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[William Gourley]

Thanks to Axex Mcauley, Bob Harper, Kentdave, and Rein - the entry in
Scott's about various issues not that are not listed, and the fact that I
have about a dozen stamps (bought when I had little money from selling
newspapers on the streets of Los Angeles in the 1950's) makes me suspicious
that they were cheap and "philatelic," rather than limited postal runs.
Perhaps Rein could expand on the information he gleaned from his reading
about their history.

Many thanks.

[Victor Manta]

For Touvan philately may I recommend the Web resource of the PWO member, Mr.
Eric J. Slone: http://www.tuvastamps.org/

Regards,
Victor Manta
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"William Gourley" <gourl...@earthlink.net> wrote

[William Gourley]

Victor,
thank you for the link to some information about Tana Touva. Several of the
down-stream links were inactive, but there was some stamp information. The most
interesting thing was the association of Richard Feynman with Tana Tuva.
The link information for one non-functioning web site indicated that the stamps
I have are probably included in issues that are not considered (by the major
catalogs) to be true postage stamps.
Thanks for your help.
Regards, wkg

[Rein Bakhuizen van den Brink]

On 19 Jul 2001 07:33:13 , William Gourley wrote:

Apparently the little book by S. Blechman has already been translated into English
[according to donw...@aol.com].

Maybe I should get a copy of that too instead of trying to improve my Russian :)

gtx, Rein