1942-1944 Official Stamp Issues

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Design : V. Kirin Perforations: 10 ½ and 11 ½

These stamps were official stamps for various government authorities, but from 26.02.1943. postal authorities allowed them to be used for normal postal use.

			Perf. 10 ½	Perf. 11 ½	Ordinary paper	Pelure paper
Mi 1	0,25 kn	1.000.000	x	x	x	x
Mi 2	0,50 kn	1.000.000	x	x	x	x
Mi 3	0,75 kn	500.000	x	x	x	x
Mi 4	1 kn	1.000.000	x	x	x	x
Mi 5	2 kn	500.000	x	x	x	x
Mi 6	3 kn	8.000.000	x	x	x
Mi 7	3,5 kn	2.500.000		x	(x)	x
Mi 8	4 kn	1.000.000	x	x	x
Mi 9	5 kn	500.000	x	x	x	(x)
Mi 10	6 kn	500.000	x	x	x	x
Mi 11	10 kn	2.000.000	x	x	x
Mi 12	12 kn	500.000	x	x	x
Mi 13	12,5 kn	2.500.000		x	(x)	x
Mi 14	20 kn	500.000	x	x	x
Mi 15	30 kn	500.000	x	x	x
Mi 16	40 kn	100.000	x	x	x
Mi 17	50 kn	100.000	x	x	x
Mi 18	100 kn	100.000	x	x	x

Stamps marked with (X) in the table were not officially issued; in fact, they came to the market after WWII. The rarest one is 3,50 kn on ordinary paper.

Sheets

Stamps were issued in sheets of 100 stamps.

Perforations

Those stamps were printed in large quantities; therefore, shifted, missed, partial, and double perforations are common.

Varieties and errors

Very interesting are sheets of 3 kn with one row of 1 kn value, and sheets where this row of 1 kn is erased.

Minister albums

Minister albums are issued for this stamps with lots of material: imperforated, only verically and horizontally perforated; all values printed in reverse; higher denominations without the second printing phase; individual printings of the second printing phase and slightly different color shades; reverse combination prints on pelure paper and on yellow, card-like paper, each containing 3 or 4 denominations vertically connected, as well as a block of 9 stamps in which all denominations (2, 3, 4/6, 0.25, 0.50/1, 5, and 0.75 kuna) are different.