Month: December 2007
Some artistamps with an Iraq theme
Ok these are no mine so please don’t ask if I have them for sale.  I found these on eBay, they are nice and interesting, the original stamps had Military occupation of San Dinero, now San Dinero is just a non existent country in South America. In the ones below, the words San dinero are overprinted with the […]
Colour variations sold as Errors
I noticed an increase in the scams that are the colour variation “errors” and the missing parts of stamps “errors” on Iraqi stamps being sold on eBay for a lot of money. In case you have not read past posts that I wrote about these, these are not errors. These imperfections are added or created […]
Basra and Thai artistamps on eBay again
The Galleries have changed and now FREE
The iraq-stamps.com galleries have now been changed. Instead of having two separate galleries (stamps and FDCs), now the galleries are combined into one big gallery area and access to them is completely FREE, you need to register to access the galleries, you will need a valid email address as you will be sent a confirmation […]
New Artistamps set – Ashura
Two years for iraq-stamps.com
Its the second year anniversary of this website www.iraq-stamps.com and I would like to welcome all new visitors and thank all the regular visitors to the site and all the people that have helped me and continue to do so to run this site and to create the stamp designs you see display. iraq-stamps.com was created in […]
This is not an Iraqi revenue stamp
Fake 70s samples, 2 sets on eBay
Updated Proofs section of the gallery + article on proofs
I have created a new section of the gallery which shows only Iraqi stamps proofs. This section now contains many items (100+). I also found a nice article explaining what proofs/essay are, it is taken from the NY Times. By BARTH HEALEY Published: March 19, 1989 So much of a stamp’s design seems predictable – […]