VOLUME: XXVII' - No. 5 MARCH - APRIL 1"980

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Genuine Overprint Counterfeit Overprint

VATICAN.CITY 1934 PROVISIONALS

The series known as the 1934 provisiona1s came into being beoause of a change ofpostal rates in Italy. The stamps that were overprinted were from the first

tive issue of the Vatican sued in August, 1929. They were overprintedby the Tipografia Ie Vaticana on sh~ets of 100 and went on sale June 16,1934 They were valid for postage unti December 31, 1940.

In , another provisional set was proposed with an ornamental overprint onthe remainders of the 1929 series. proposal was turned down.

Because the basic unoverprinted scatalog value, and theto see numerous

are fairly common and of rather loware of cons value, it has been commonsue. th t and second

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1937 by the Tipografia cana ch wasffers from the t that the overall

wider and the numerals are spaced further apart

One of the rarities of this issue is the rejected essay which was mixed with theissue and sold at Postal Station Number 1 of the Vatican Ci . This essay

can be easily noticed because the overprint of 1.30 on 1.25 is very thin type ratherthan the that was finally used on the two printings.In 1966$ The Philatelic Foundation reported that 301 items from this series hadbeen studied. Of that figure, 9%% were considered to be forgeries.

A new analysis of this series follows.

Analysis t.~e 1934 overprints on the Pope Pius XI definitives of 1929

ScottNumber

NumberSubmitted

35 40 on 80 67

36 1.30 on 1.25 119

36a 1

37 2.05 on 2 119

37a 1

38 1.55 on 2.50 146

38a 1

39 3.05 on 5 159

40 3.70 on 10 176789

Genuine Not Genuine

62

104 151 o

106 13

1 o126 20

1 o142 17~

156699

2090

Of the items exa~ined, 88.6% were cons to be genuine. A numberof the items considered this ana is vre re from both the firstand second printings.

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135 • FDC:commem.time&date death PJohnIDn.Ganx"6.3 .63-20"

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137 Cover Ecum.Counc.II closinggalsometered canx on back.12.7.65

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584(2 ) ) • (509 ) 1.1 5146 Postcard:PPius XI-in garden.St.Peter

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