a summary of the stamp situation, by country

[kaberett]

• Ajman (UAE)
• Aotearoa-New Zealand (oldest legible postmark ca. 1951)
• Algeria (no legible dates, haven't looked up date of issue yet)
• Argentina (postmarked 1957)
• Australia (one identifiable 1938 issue, two ca 1920s issue, miscellaneous pre-decimalisation)
• Austria (so. many. like, getting on for a kilo of them.
• Belgium (oldest legible postmark ??1903, on a stamp first issued in 1893)
• Bohemia & Moravia (postmark 1940?)
• Brazil (postmark/identifiable date of issue 1959, plus one 1961 issue)
• Bulgaria (one circa 1957, one issued 1988)
• Cambodia (1984 issue, specifically the fox, but GOSH I am very taken by many of the other 1984 issue Cambodian stamps!)
• Canada (... lots, oldest identifiable the 1911-1918 issue)
• China, Republic of
• Ceylon (possibly postmarked 20 & 21??? issued 1911-1925)
• Colombia (postmarks illegible, but commemorating a 10^th anniversary in 2000)
• Cuba (issued 1986)
• Czechoslovakia (currently not trivially datable because it's in a stuck-together stack :|)
• Czech Republic
• Denmark (oldest legible postmark [19]43)
• Egypt (ca 1950s issue?)
• Finland (postmark [19]59)
• France (oldest legible postmark 1937)
• Fujeira (now Fujairah, UAE)
• Germany -- Deutsches Reich (both 1900-1902 issue and 1902-1916ish issue)
• Germany -- Deutsche Demokratische Republik (postmarks illegible or non-existent, but these are relatively easy to pin down...)
• Germany -- West (definitely loads postmarked 50s & 60s)
• Germany -- Bundesrepublik Deutschland (yeah I've not checked whether we have any 1990-issue :-p)
• Greece (oldest ~1950s issue)
• Guatemala [this is the point, alphabetically, at which I decided getting ready for bed was a higher priority than continuing to look shit up, but I will come back and edit tomorrow. ish.]
• Hungary
• India
• Italy
• Ireland (Republic; Northern; pre-independence)
• Israel
• Japan
• Jordan
• Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika
• Laos
• Lithuania, Republic of Central (i.e. neccesarily 1920-1922)
• Luxembourg
• Malaysia - Perak (ref)
• Malta
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• Nigeria
• North Borneo
• Norway
• Pakistan
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Singapore
• South Africa
• Southern Rhodesia/Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Zimbabwe)
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Thailand
• Turkey
• UK (oldest legible postmark 1892)
• USA
• USSR
• Vatican City
• Vietnam
• Yugoslavia
• Zaire, Republic of

Comments

[davidgillon]

That is quite a geographic and temporal range!