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near perfect centering. I am unable to catalogue the stamp after intense effort. Any help will be hugely appreciated.
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That's a lovely stamp stampbaby!
I've never seen one of these before.
It's an 1872 revenue from the small German state of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen in Thuringia and is listed in the old Forbin catalogue.
This was a principality so I guess the "F." in the title is for Fürstentum = principality.
It looks in great condition. 
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Thank you NigelC for your input. I will try to locate a Forbin Catalogue.
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Hi stampbaby,
I find Forbin very useful as it covers revenues from the whole world but the last edition was way back in 1915.
I use an online version for a small one-off subscription I paid years ago but I believe it's also available for free elsewhere.
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Forbin for free:
https://archive.org/details/ForbinFiscals1915
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Wow! Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was one of the smallest states that made up Germany at that time. It's amazing how they clung to their sovereignty and issued their own revenue stamps, but had their mails operated by either Thurn and Taxis (in this case) or one of the bigger states. Perhaps an early example of outsourcing ;-)
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Beautiful obscure revenue...thanks for posting it.
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Schwartzburg-Sondershausen was one of numerous tiny countries in Thuringia.
The capital used stamps of Prussia, but its exclaves used Thurn and Taxis.
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In all my many, many, years of collecting, I have never before come across this very old and very beautiful stamp. It is MNH (full gum), and has near perfect centering. I am unable to catalogue the stamp after intense effort. Any help will be hugely appreciated.
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re: Another Baffler: Austrian or Germanic or ??
That's a lovely stamp stampbaby!
I've never seen one of these before.
It's an 1872 revenue from the small German state of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen in Thuringia and is listed in the old Forbin catalogue.
This was a principality so I guess the "F." in the title is for Fürstentum = principality.
It looks in great condition.
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re: Another Baffler: Austrian or Germanic or ??
Thank you NigelC for your input. I will try to locate a Forbin Catalogue.
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re: Another Baffler: Austrian or Germanic or ??
Hi stampbaby,
I find Forbin very useful as it covers revenues from the whole world but the last edition was way back in 1915.
I use an online version for a small one-off subscription I paid years ago but I believe it's also available for free elsewhere.
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re: Another Baffler: Austrian or Germanic or ??
Forbin for free:
https://archive.org/details/ForbinFiscals1915
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re: Another Baffler: Austrian or Germanic or ??
Wow! Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was one of the smallest states that made up Germany at that time. It's amazing how they clung to their sovereignty and issued their own revenue stamps, but had their mails operated by either Thurn and Taxis (in this case) or one of the bigger states. Perhaps an early example of outsourcing ;-)
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re: Another Baffler: Austrian or Germanic or ??
Beautiful obscure revenue...thanks for posting it.
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re: Another Baffler: Austrian or Germanic or ??
Schwartzburg-Sondershausen was one of numerous tiny countries in Thuringia.
The capital used stamps of Prussia, but its exclaves used Thurn and Taxis.
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