Catalog of Bulgarian Regular Stamps for 1916 year.

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◀ 1915 1919 ▶

Catalog of Bulgarian Regular Stamps for 1916 година 1 emissions

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"3 stotinki green overprint on 1 stotinki "Little Lion" BK 31" - new face value. Typographic print. Skopje overprint

📅 09.03.1916 Regular Stamp 1 pcs.

112 (MI BG 107)

Artist: unknown

Paper: cellulose paper

Printing: 110,000

Additional Information

For 112, stamps from the "Sofia" edition "Little Lion", printed in 1901 on cellulose paper, were used. 112 was made for charitable purposes and was practically not released for wide postal use. The small-run overprint was expected to attract the attention of collectors of illustrated postcards that had traveled. 100,000 pcs. of the stamps were handed over on 9.III.1916 against payment at their nominal value to the representative of the German sanitary mission in Sofia. Some of these stamps were pasted on a certain amount of illustrated postcards with various subjects (views and portraits). Formed as printed works, they were stamped in various post offices in Bulgaria and the lands annexed during the war. Most of these postcards were stamped with the Skopje postmark, where the headquarters of the German troops was located, hence the name of the overprint. The remaining majority of the stamps handed over to the German mission were sold to a large German commercial philatelic company. 10,000 stamps were stored in the State Depository for Securities, without being sent to the post offices, and after 1931 were sold for collectors purposes through the post offices in Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas and Ruse.

BC №	Nominal	MNH	Used/CTO
BC 112	3 stotinki on 1 stotinka	3.07 €	3.07 €

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◀ 1915 1919 ▶