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First set of stamps with the new currency – Kuna – which was designed to show the beautiful landscapes of the new country to the world.
Printing sheets are in 100 stamps printed in large quantities from 1941-1943 at least three times on different kinds of papers and with different perforations ranging from 10 to 13 ½.
| Mi | Value/kn | Image | Types of paper | Issued |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 0,25 | Ozalj | Common deep print paper; Porous paper; Offset paper | 2.400,000 |
| 48 | 0,50 | Jajce | Common deep print paper; Porous paper; Offset paper; Pelure paper | 18.000,000 |
| 49 | 0,75 | Varaždin | Common deep print paper; Porous paper; Offset paper; Pelure paper* | 1.000,000 |
| 50 | 1 | Velebit | Common deep print paper; Porous paper; Offset paper | 18.000,000 |
| 51 | 1,5 | Zelenjak | Common deep print paper; Porous paper; | 18.000,000 |
| 52 | 2 | Zagreb | Common deep print paper; Pelure paper; Offset paper; | 25.000,000 |
| 53 | 3 | Osijek | Common deep print paper; Porous paper; Offset paper | 4.000,000 |
| 54 | 4 | Drina | Common deep print paper; Offset paper | 5.000,000 |
| 55 | 5 | Konjic | Common deep print paper | 3.600,000 |
| 56 | 5 | Zemun | Common deep print paper; Offset paper | 1.000,000 |
| 57 | 6 | Dubrovnik | Common deep print paper; Offset paper | 3.600,000 |
| 58 | 7 | Slavonija | Common deep print paper; Offset paper | 4.800,000 |
| 59 | 8 | Sarajevo | Common deep print paper; Offset paper | 1.200,000 |
| 60 | 10 | Plitvice | Common deep print paper; Porous paper; Pelure paper | 960.000 |
| 61 | 12 | Klis | Common deep print paper | 1.000,000 |
| 62 | 20 | Hvar | Common deep print paper; Offset paper | 960.000 |
| 63 | 30 | Srijem | Common deep print paper; Offset paper | 600.000 |
| 64 | 50 | Senj | Common deep print paper; Offset paper | 240.000 |
| 65 | 100 | Banja Luka | Common deep print paper; Offset paper | 150.000 |
*Varaždin on Pelure paper (issued only in the Ministar Albums)
Stamps were printed in sheets of 100 stamps (pane with four sheets) and most of the values of this set are printed in tete-beche 50/50 on a sheet – half of the sheet has the inverted position of the stamps. Values without a tete-beche prints are: Mi 49, Mi53, Mi 56, Mi 61, Mi 65.
Plate numbers
Plate numbers exist on the following sheets:
Mi 47 I, II
Mi 48 I, II, III , IV + bold numbers I, II, III, IV
Mi 50 I, II, III, IV
Mi 51 I, II, III, IV
Mi 52 I, II, III, IV
Mi 53 I, II,
Mi 54 I, II
Mi 55 I, II.
MI 57 I, II,
Mi 58 I, II,
Mi 60 I, II
Mi 64 I, II
Mi 47, plate numbers
Perforations
There are many perforation varieties, such as perforated only diagonally, vertically, or only one side of the stamps. Double or even more perforations are also common for this issue, including lots of printer’s waste.
Imperforated stamps exist for all values also on the different types of paper.
The rarest ones are Mi 55, Mi 61 and Mi 65.
Imperforated stamps for a few values also exist on a thick carton paper – Mi 48, Mi 51, Mi 52
Tete -beche imperforated pair for stamps Mi 63 and Mi 64 are extremelly rare.
Plate flaws and graver’s marks
Because of the large quantity of issued stamps and different kind of a printing, this issue has many, many plate flaws and errors, But for some of them it is not clear whether they are actually graver’s marks and noone can know for sure!
| Mi 47 | small bird on the sky | plate I position 43 |
| large bird on the sky | plate II position 58 | |
| Mi 51 | man on the road | plate I position 42 |
| Mi 52 | without two windows | plate I position 26 |
| Mi 53 | letter ‘U’ between two buildings | plate I position 46 |
| large white spot on a 3 | plate I position 45 | |
| Mi 54 | three people in a boat | plate I position 99 |
| Mi 55 | letter ‘A’ in a white circle | plate I position 4 |
| Mi 58 | letter’C’ in the sky | plate II position 84 |
| Mi 64 | white circle near 50 | plate I position 84 |
| Mi 65 | engravers mark ‘H’ | plate position 56 |
| cross on the minaret | plate position 17 |
Small and big bird, detail
Man on the road
Letter U between two buildings
A in white circle
C in the sky
Graver’s mark H
Print errors
Some of the double prints are so bad they are actually printers waste.
Double prints
Some values were printed on the gum side, and there is also the offset print on the back (abklatsch) on many values.
Color proofs
Color proofs exist for a following stamps: Mi 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 64, 65.
Because of the fact that this issue was printed three times over a long time span and on different types of paper, there are quite striking differences in color shades of regular stamps!
Graver’s proofs
Graver’s proofs in the big format:
Karl Seizinger special gravers proofs in a smaller format than the actual stamps also exist, but they are very rare. Here’s a selection of proofs in various sizes:
Stamp Mi 52 (Zagreb) also exists as an imperforated proof with a slightly different picture, with a few houses visible near the inscription “Zagreb”. Those houses were erased in the final solution for the issued stamp.
Se-tenant stamps
