19.III.1945 – Mi 173-177 – Surcharge stamps for the benefit of Croatian postal workers

Design: I. Režek   Perforation: L 11 ½

Mi 1733,50 + 1,50 kn250.000 issued
Mi 17412,50 + 6 kn 250.000 issued
Mi 17524 + 12 kn   250.000 issued
Mi 17650 + 25 kn250.000 issued

Sheets

Stamps are printed in mini sheets of 8 stamps.

Perforations

Varieties and errors

Minister albums

Minister albums exist but only few are issued and materials from them are very rare – imperforated mini sheets and only horizontally and vertically perforated.

Color proofs

There weren’t any color proofs in the Minister album but pieces that either come from the holdings of the Postal Museum or from stolen waste paper – Mi 175 in dark yellow-orange, Mi 176 in dark yellow-orange, brown-olive, and dark blue-violet, as well as – double-printed pieces, each with one impression of the value of 50 + 25 Kuna in dark blue-violet and one (shifted underneath) impression in yellow-orange.

Block

Block 9 Mi 177 was issued together with this stamps set.

Stamp in the block has the same motif as Mi 176 but with bigger value, another color, and perforation of L 11 ½.

Block 9 Mi 177100 + 50 kn100.000 issued

Imperforated block exists in the Minister album but it is very, very rare.

Režek Graver’s print of blocks without the title on the block exist also.