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General Philatelic/Identify This? : Uganda...a 'why' question..

 

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harley14

09 Feb 2017
04:04:37pm
I have an the olympic set Scott #151 - 154. I notice in the Scott catalogue the variety number is A6b - there are some others like that. I'm not seeing an example labeled A6b only A6. WHY would they use b, c,d,e, etc. Day Dreaming

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09 Feb 2017
04:11:56pm
re: Uganda...a 'why' question..

Hi Harley14,

Here the Scott illustration number "A6b" refers to an illustration in the Scott Tanzania listings which has the same basic design.

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09 Feb 2017
04:12:01pm
re: Uganda...a 'why' question..

Scott Uganda #147-174 are common design sets with Tanzania. To see Design #A6a through #A6g, see the listings for Tanzania.

Yet another "shortcut" that Scott takes that drives people crazy.

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09 Feb 2017
04:12:33pm
re: Uganda...a 'why' question..

Nigel is faster than I am...

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09 Feb 2017
04:16:05pm
re: Uganda...a 'why' question..

The design numbers ("A6a" etc) are referenced back to the Tanzania listings. If you look below each of the affected listings, you will see the notation "Exist imperf. from Format International liquidation stock". This is an indication that these issues may have been originally deemed to be purely philatelic creations, and were only assigned Scott numbers some time later and the alphabetic subscripts to the design numbers were used to fill in.

Of course, that's just a theory.

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harley14

09 Feb 2017
04:22:31pm
re: Uganda...a 'why' question..

No matter how old I get I still ask 'why' and then when I get my answer so quickly I'm just amazed...my mother said I was always impatient when she didn't answer me asap.. I'm sure she'd be smiling if she could only see how quick responses on SOR come thru..

Thanks alot to each of you!

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09 Feb 2017
04:31:15pm
re: Uganda...a 'why' question..

These issues were made by the East African Postal Administration using common designs on behalf of the three countries: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

Previously, the same organisation had issued the stamps shared by these countries, wich are usually listed and referred to as "Kenya, Uganda & Tanzania" or simply "KUT".

I guess at some time Scott had these listed under Kenya (or as shared design types) in Scott Volume 1 (when all the BC countries were listed there) before having to add them to the Tanzania listings when Tanzania and Uganda were moved to a separate volume from Kenya.

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harley14

09 Feb 2017
04:04:37pm

I have an the olympic set Scott #151 - 154. I notice in the Scott catalogue the variety number is A6b - there are some others like that. I'm not seeing an example labeled A6b only A6. WHY would they use b, c,d,e, etc. Day Dreaming

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nigelc

09 Feb 2017
04:11:56pm

re: Uganda...a 'why' question..

Hi Harley14,

Here the Scott illustration number "A6b" refers to an illustration in the Scott Tanzania listings which has the same basic design.

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khj

09 Feb 2017
04:12:01pm

re: Uganda...a 'why' question..

Scott Uganda #147-174 are common design sets with Tanzania. To see Design #A6a through #A6g, see the listings for Tanzania.

Yet another "shortcut" that Scott takes that drives people crazy.

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khj

09 Feb 2017
04:12:33pm

re: Uganda...a 'why' question..

Nigel is faster than I am...

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09 Feb 2017
04:16:05pm

re: Uganda...a 'why' question..

The design numbers ("A6a" etc) are referenced back to the Tanzania listings. If you look below each of the affected listings, you will see the notation "Exist imperf. from Format International liquidation stock". This is an indication that these issues may have been originally deemed to be purely philatelic creations, and were only assigned Scott numbers some time later and the alphabetic subscripts to the design numbers were used to fill in.

Of course, that's just a theory.

Roy

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"Over 7,000 new covers coming Wednesday March 20. See my homepage for details."

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harley14

09 Feb 2017
04:22:31pm

re: Uganda...a 'why' question..

No matter how old I get I still ask 'why' and then when I get my answer so quickly I'm just amazed...my mother said I was always impatient when she didn't answer me asap.. I'm sure she'd be smiling if she could only see how quick responses on SOR come thru..

Thanks alot to each of you!

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nigelc

09 Feb 2017
04:31:15pm

re: Uganda...a 'why' question..

These issues were made by the East African Postal Administration using common designs on behalf of the three countries: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

Previously, the same organisation had issued the stamps shared by these countries, wich are usually listed and referred to as "Kenya, Uganda & Tanzania" or simply "KUT".

I guess at some time Scott had these listed under Kenya (or as shared design types) in Scott Volume 1 (when all the BC countries were listed there) before having to add them to the Tanzania listings when Tanzania and Uganda were moved to a separate volume from Kenya.

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