Wednesday, May 14, 2008
S18 - Generic International and UNPA's Pope Benedict Cover the Final Word
As we saw with sheet S5, the "My Visit to the United Nations" student sheet, one of the criterion for listing a stamp in a commercial catalog, is that is must be available for postal use. Since these Pope Benedict covers are souvenirs; one cannot obtain stamps and post his or her own cover using this stamp, they will NOT be listed in any catalog. Yes, they are different from the S18 stamp and were produced in personalized sheet format. However, since no sheets were ever made available to the public (mint or precanceled), UNPI has decided NOT to give this sheet a separate Snn number. The next sheet, Essen 2008, will be assigned S22. We will cover this personalized sheet in the next blog entry. Your comments on this decision are welcome.
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2 comments:
HI CLAY !!! You are "SUPER" because of your work for the UN Personalized stamps. But you are wrong with Marlens Pope Benedicts stamp sheet. It was made by order of the UN Postal Chief. Either it is legal or illegal. Give the Pope what is due to him, in this case an S-number/
Best wishes Franz Schmid
And so we have, S18a...
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