Catalog of Bulgarian Postage Stamps for 1916 year.

📌 Postage Stamps 1 📍 Postal Cards 3 🔄 Regular Stamps 1

◀ 1915 1917 ▶

Catalog of Bulgarian Postage Stamps for 1916 година 1 emissions

"3 cents green overprint on 1 cent "Little Lion" BK 31" - new nominal value. Typographic stamp. 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" were used, printed in 1901 on cellulose paper. 112 was made for a charitable purpose and was practically not put into wide postal use. The limited edition overprint was expected to attract the attention of collectors of travel illustrated postcards. 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. A number of illustrated postcards with various subjects (views and portraits) were pasted with some of these stamps. Formed as printed works, they were stamped in various post offices in Bulgaria and the lands annexed during the war. Most of these cards were stamped with the stamp of Skopje, where the headquarters of the German troops were located, hence the name of the overprint. The remaining majority of the stamps given to the German mission were sold to a large German commercial philatelic firm. 10,000 stamps were stored in the State Depository for Securities without being sent to the post offices and after 1931 were sold for collector 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 1917 ▶