Talk:Postage stamps and postal history of Transnistria

File:Transnistria stamp of 1993.jpg

I am pretty sure this is a bogus stamp. A whole bunch of the Soviet definitive stamps were illegally overprinted after the USSR collapse as if they were issued by new territories. The official first stamp of Transnistria was issued on December 31st, 1993, see ru:File:МаркиПМР1993МЛ(1).jpg, and there were no other stamps in 1993. I am moving the illustration to the appropriate section and add some explanation. --Michael Romanov (talk) 02:12, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

It's funny but Rick Miller is definitely unaware of the illegal overprints shown, at least, in Figures 6 and 7. --Michael Romanov (talk) 02:44, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Sources

Unfortunately, my Scott 2007 does not show Transnistria. And one link (http://www.pmrstamps.com) is broken and cannot be found in web archives. I delete both. --Michael Romanov (talk) 02:59, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Tiraspol provisional stamps

I add info from the Russian Wikipedia article about this provisional issue. --Michael Romanov (talk) 03:03, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

The file commons:File:StampTiraspol1992.jpg is also added. --Michael Romanov (talk) 03:45, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Illegal stamps

I am not sure that the use of the word "illegal" in the article and to describe the 1993 stamp is correct. Presumably, the Moldovan authorities regard the real stamps of Transnistria to be "illegal" as well, though I understand a genuine postal service is provided by this unrecognised regime. Should this part of the article be reworded? Maidonian (talk) 16:22, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

I agree with you. Actually, those stamps are typical bogus stamps. Let's use this term. --Michael Romanov (talk) 18:14, 10 September 2010 (UTC)