Help me identify countries PLEASE!!
Dawn Lee Adams
I have stamps with THE FOLLOWING WORDS on them but need to know what
country they are from:
Helvitia, Sahara OCC R.A.S.D., Berkina Faso,
Belarus, Manama, "D D R" Luftpost, Ajmad, Ajman State, etat du inchii
ya Katanga, Posta Shqiptaire, POCC backwards N & R Rossya, postes Lao,
Nipon, Y3 funny b EK backwards N CTOH (one word) or UZBEKISTAN (on same
stamp), VDRZAVA?SHS, OEUTA or CEUTA/MELILLA is printed on stamps which
also has "Colegio de Huerfanos de Telegrafos" on them.
Also, Is Republique Du Tchad the French colony-Chad?
Where are Marshall Islands?
Is "Republique democratique populaire Lao" Laos?
Is "Sverige" Sweden?
Is "etat du Cambodge" Cambodia?
Is "`Eire" Ireland?
Is "Norge" Norway?
I appreciate any help you can give me!!!! Thanx!
--
Dawn Adams (daw...@oz.net)
check out my web page at: http://www.oz.net/~dawnie
agenphi
says...
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>I need your help...
>
>I have stamps with THE FOLLOWING WORDS on them but need to know what
>country they are from:
>
>Helvitia,
SWITZERLAND
>Sahara OCC
SAHARA OCCIDENTAL
>R.A.S.D.,
?
>Berkina Faso,
BURKINA FASO
>Belarus,
BIELO RUSSIA
>Manama,
MANAMA, it's in the United Arab Emirats
>"D D R" Luftpost,
DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK Air Mail
>Ajmad,
?
>Ajman State,
AJMAN STATE , it's in the United Arab Emirats
>etat du inchii
?
>ya Katanga,
KATANGA
>Posta Shqiptaire,
POST OF ALBANY
>POCC backwards N & R Rossya,
RUSSIA
>postes Lao,
LAOS called now KAMPUCHEA
>Nipon,
JAPAN
>Y3 funny b EK backwards N CTOH (one word) or UZBEKISTAN (on same
>stamp),
OUZBEKISTAN in the old USSR
>VDRZAVA?SHS, OEUTA or CEUTA/MELILLA is printed on stamps which
>also has "Colegio de Huerfanos de Telegrafos" on them.
>
?
>Also, Is Republique Du Tchad the French colony-Chad?
Yes. It's the republic after independancy.
>Where are Marshall Islands?
?
>Is "Republique democratique populaire Lao" Laos?
Yes or KAMPUCHEA now.
>Is "Sverige" Sweden?
Yes
>Is "etat du Cambodge" Cambodia?
YES
>Is "`Eire" Ireland?
YES
>Is "Norge" Norway?
>
YES
Gandeic
In addition to what others replied:
DDR Luftpost is the former East Germany (airmail).
The Marshall Islands are located in the central Pacific Ocean. They are
north of the former British colony known as the Gilbert & Ellice Islands
(now known as Kiribati and Tuvalu, respectively). The Marshall's were
once a German colony and there are also stamps from that era.
Tom
Steven Haddock
>
>I need your help...
>
>I have stamps with THE FOLLOWING WORDS on them but need to know what
>country they are from:
>
>Helvitia
Sahara OCC R.A.S.D.
Western Sahara,
Berkina Faso
BURKINA FASO - Used to be known as Upper Volta
>Belarus - Is Belarus. It was part of the Soviet Union until 1991
Manama
Part of Ajman (See Below)
"D D R" Luftpost
East Germany (or the German Democratic Republic) Airmail
Ajmad, Ajman State
AJMAN - One of the Trucial States. It is now part of the United Arab
Emirates
etat du inchii
Indochina - Now broken up into Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia
>ya Katanga
Katanga - a state of the Belgian Congo that had a brief period of
semi-independence in the 1960s
Posta Shqiptaire
Albania
POCC backwards N & R Rossya
Russia, since 1991
postes Lao
Laos
>Nipon
NIPPON - Japan
Y3 funny b EK backwards N CTOH (one word) or UZBEKISTAN (on same
>stamp),
Uzbekistan. Like Belarus, it separated from the Soviet Union in
1991
VDRZAVA?SHS
Ooops, not sure. I think it is Yugoslavia
OEUTA or CEUTA/MELILLA is printed on stamps which
>also has "Colegio de Huerfanos de Telegrafos" on them.
Completely stumped on this
>
>Also, Is Republique Du Tchad the French colony-Chad?
YES
>Where are Marshall Islands?
Somewhere in the South Pacific, southwest of Hawaii
>Is "Republique democratique populaire Lao" Laos?
>Is "Sverige" Sweden?
>Is "etat du Cambodge" Cambodia?
>Is "`Eire" Ireland?
>Is "Norge" Norway?
Absolutely. 5 out of 5.
Steven Haddock
Scarborough, Ontario
Cobol99
call Germany !
DDR (GDR) exist no more!
Norman Dijkstra
>
> I need your help...
>
> I have stamps with THE FOLLOWING WORDS on them but need to know what
> country they are from:
>
> Belarus, Manama, "D D R" Luftpost, Ajmad, Ajman State, etat du inchii
> Nipon, Y3 funny b EK backwards N CTOH (one word) or UZBEKISTAN (on same
> stamp), VDRZAVA?SHS, OEUTA or CEUTA/MELILLA is printed on stamps which
> also has "Colegio de Huerfanos de Telegrafos" on them.
>
> Where are Marshall Islands?Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean
> Is "Republique democratique populaire Lao" Laos?Yes
> Is "Sverige" Sweden?Yes
> Is "etat du Cambodge" Cambodia?
> Is "Norge" Norway?Yes
>
> I appreciate any help you can give me!!!! Thanx!
>
> --
> Dawn Adams (daw...@oz.net)
> check out my web page at: http://www.oz.net/~dawnie
Helvetia = Switserland.
"D D R" Luftpost = East German airmail
postes Lao = Laos
UZBEKISTAN is one of the states that used to belong to the USSR.
I hoped this helped a bit.
Good-luck
Arwel Parry
<phil...@ionsys.com> writes
>OEUTA or CEUTA/MELILLA is printed on stamps which
>>also has "Colegio de Huerfanos de Telegrafos" on them.
>>
Ceuta and Melilla are Spanish territories - towns on the coast of North
Africa (Morocco, but not part of Morocco, if you get my meaning :-)
Arwel
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Nicholas G. Carter
Haddock) wrote:
>
> etat du inchii
> Indochina - Now broken up into Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia
>
> >ya Katanga
> Katanga - a state of the Belgian Congo that had a brief period of
> semi-independence in the 1960s
>
"etat du inchii ya katanga" = Katanga
n.c.
Scott Marusak
>Dawn Lee Adams wrote:
>>
>> I need your help...
>> Sahara OCC R.A.S.D.,
I'd like help on this one too. I assume they are stamps from the area
that used to be the Spanish Sahara. Has this area become liberated
in fact, or just philatelicly???
>> Berkina Faso,
Burkino Faso = Modern name of Upper Volta
>> Belarus,
part of Ex-USSR, apparently considering a new union with Russia now
(see the soc heirarchy for some fiery debate about it)
>> Manama,
one of the Trucial states (not listed by Scott)
>> Ajmad, Ajman State,
Ajman ...now part of the United Arab Emirates
>> Katanga,
Stamps made during rebellion in ....Belgian Congo was it? This was
where Dag Hammershold was flying when he died.
>> Posta Shqiptaire,
Albania
Hope this helps,
Scott
Art Mongan
>VDRZAVA?SHS
early Yugoslavia (1Lxx) etc.
>
>OEUTA or CEUTA/MELILLA is printed on stamps which
>>also has "Colegio de Huerfanos de Telegrafos" on them.
This is ususally considered a Spanish cinderella like many other that have
"sin valor postal" or "Colegio de Huerfanos de Telegrafos" or variants.
Jay T Carrigan
VDRZAVA SHS - This is early Yugoslavia as someone else pointed out.
The "V" is actually part of the side panel design. DRZAVA SHS means
"State of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes".
KAMPUCHEA is not a new name for Laos, as someone else guessed. It is
a new (more phonetically correct) spelling for Cambodia.
Jay Carrigan j...@crosslink.net
Stephen L Suffet
> I need your help...
>
> I have stamps with THE FOLLOWING WORDS on them but need to know what
> country they are from:
>
> Helvitia, Sahara OCC R.A.S.D., Berkina Faso,
> Belarus, Manama, "D D R" Luftpost, Ajmad, Ajman State, etat du inchii
> ya Katanga, Posta Shqiptaire, POCC backwards N & R Rossya, postes Lao,
> Nipon, Y3 funny b EK backwards N CTOH (one word) or UZBEKISTAN (on same
> stamp), VDRZAVA?SHS, OEUTA or CEUTA/MELILLA is printed on stamps which
> also has "Colegio de Huerfanos de Telegrafos" on them.
>
> Also, Is Republique Du Tchad the French colony-Chad?
> Where are Marshall Islands?
> Is "Republique democratique populaire Lao" Laos?
> Is "Sverige" Sweden?
> Is "etat du Cambodge" Cambodia?
> Is "`Eire" Ireland?
> Is "Norge" Norway?
>
> I appreciate any help you can give me!!!! Thanx!
>
> --
> Dawn Adams (daw...@oz.net)
> check out my web page at: http://www.oz.net/~dawnie
>
>
Dear Dawn---
The funny alphabet with all the "backward" letters is the Cyrillic
alphabet -- invented by Saints Cyril and Methodius out of the Greek,
Roman, and Hebrew alphabets -- and used in Russia and many other states
of the former USSR, as well as in Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and
possibly elsewhere.
POSSNR is Russia, spelled ROSSYA in the Roman alphabet.
Y3bK.... is Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic.
Belarus is Byelo-Russia, another former Soviet republic.
DDR is the former German Democratic Republic, better known as East
Germany. LUFTPOST means AIRMAIL.
You are correct about Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Laos, Chad, and Cambodia.
POSTA SHQIPTAIRE is Albania (actually Alabanian Post).
NIPPON is Japan.
KATANGA was a secessionist state from what had been Congo (Kinshasa)
and is now called Zaire.
AJMAN is one of the United Arab Emirates -- formerly called Trucial
States. Its stamps are supposedly valid for internal (domestic) use only,
but have been seen in international mail.
HELVETIA is Switzerland.
The MARSHALL ISLANDS -- at various times under German, Japanese, or
US administration -- are a quasi-independent republic in the Pacific Ocean.
I suggest you get a good stamp identifier -- I believe Stanley
Gibbons publishes one -- and a good atlas.
Best of luck & happy collecting!
Steve Suffet
New York City